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...Quran, ahl al-kitab, - which roughly translates as "The People of the Book" or "people of an earlier revelation" - that refers to Jews and Christians as people, like Muslims, who belong to a faith that is rooted in a sacred text. Karen Armstrong, in her recent tome "Islam: A Short History," quotes a line from the Quran that reads "Do not argue with the followers of an earlier revelation otherwise than in a most kindly manner..." It's a gentle, nonconfrontational passage that contrasts sharply with the uncompromising rhetoric many Westerners associate with fundamentalist Islam...
...sense that they are turning to books for information about the ongoing war on terrorism and its cultural and historical roots. The No.1 book on The New York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list right now is "Taliban" by Ahmed Rashid; meanwhile, on the hardcover nonfiction list, Armstrong's "Islam" rides high at No.7, sandwiched in between "Germs" (Simon & Schuster) by Judith Miller at No.6 and "Holy War, Inc."(Free Press) by Peter L. Bergen...
...figure out exactly which books to read. The most notable of the new and recently released books can be divided into four main categories. 1)Taliban Tomes, Rashid's "Taliban" and Michael Griffin's "Reaping the Whirlwind." 2)Guides to the Muslim World and the Middle East, Armstrong's "Islam" and her stronger, earlier book "Muhammad"; Bernard Lewis' authoritative "The Middle East," and Geneive Abdo's insightful "No God But God." 3)Bin Laden Bios, "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America" by Yossef Bodansky and Bergen's "Holy War, Inc." and 4)Relevant History, including "Five Days...
...idols in Mecca). And Dante, in "The Divine Comedy," placed Muhammad in the Eighth Circle of Hell with the schismatics (even pagans such as Plato and Aristotle got relatively better treatment, with placement in the more scenic Limbo). Much more recently, the novelist Fay Weldon ("Affliction") wrote this about Islam: "The Koran is food for no-thought. It is not a poem on which a society can be safely or sensibly based...
...Still, the fact that today, for the first time, many American readers are beginning to buy books about Islam and the Middle East in large numbers, is a hopeful sign. Not all the news that people need to know is found in television and in newspapers; often in-depth information is called for. Lukacs, in "Five Days in London," points out that many of the citizens of London, in the days before the German air attacks in World War II, were living in blissful ignorance of the peril they faced: "The people of Britain [were] largely unaware of the immediacy...