Islam and the Challenge of DemocracyThis book engages the reader in a rich discourse on the challenges of democracy in contemporary Islam. The collection begins with a lead essay by Khaled Abou El Fadl, who argues that democracy, especially a constitutional democracy that protects basic individual rights, is the form of government best suited to promoting a set of social and political values central to Islam. Because Islam is about submission to God and about each individual's

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the most read work in the Muslim world after the Qur’an and considered by many to be the Summa Theologica of Islam

Hodgson then discusses the classical civilization of the High Caliphate

Stephen Prothero gives readers an exciting and user-friendly introduction to American cultural history in The American Bible

This translation is a short and accessible introduction to the Qur'an

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some of today's most distinguished legal scholars and commentators explain for a general audience how five landmark Supreme Court cases centered on those controversies shaped the country's destiny and continue to affect us even now

Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world

In attempting to reconcile biblical teachings with Greek philosophy he developed ideas that had a wide influence on Christian and Jewish religious thought

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The woman conserves those deeper moral forces which make for the happiness of homes and the righteousness of the country