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In the Shadow of the Prophet, The Struggle for the Soul of Islam

In the Shadow of the Prophet, The Struggle for the Soul of Islam

by Milton Viorst

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 306 PAGES

Viorst interviewed key Muslim leaders, activists and critics throughout the Arab world for this wide-ranging and largely sympathetic analysis, originally published in 1998. With chapters on Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Algeria and the Sudan. No academic treatise, much of the book originally appeared in The New Yorker, where Viorst is on staff.  (ISL18, $17.50)


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