Book description
*Ten years on from 9/11, much of the Muslim faith remains largely
unknown and misunderstood in the West.
*While there have been a number of successful books on the topic of
Islamic history - from Karen Armstrong's Islam: A Brief History
to Bernard Lewis's The Crises of Islam - there is surprisingly
no book for a popular audience about Islam as a religion, let alone
one by an author from an Islamic background.
*No God But God fills that gap, addressing issues of belief:
the difference between the Quran and the Bible, the meaning of the
Hajj, the Muslim relationship with Jesus, the Muslim attitude towards
Jews, equality between the sexes and more.
* This revised and updated edition includes a wealth of new material
and new chapters covering recent uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and
Libya; the changing face of Islam in Europe and North Africa; and a
number of topics of heated debate (the veil controversy; Islam &
women; Iraq War as a Jihadi recruiting agent etc).
Reza Aslan is a comparative religions scholar from Harvard, who is
also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. At Harvard, he was
elected president of Harvard's chapter of the World Conference on
Religion and Peace, a UN organisation committed to global understanding.
Currently teaching an introductory course on Islam at Iowa, Aslan is
also at work on a novel.
