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FOREWORD<br />
‘What is Islam?’ is a question that has been asked by countless people<br />
of late. Unfortunately, few adequate answers have been given that<br />
are short enough to fulfill the modern need for brevity, but long<br />
enough to satisfy the demands of the question. Here is a book<br />
to change that. Written in lucid English by a scholar of the East<br />
and West, What is Islam and Why? answers that question in a few<br />
dozen pages with ample quotes drawn from the sources of the<br />
religion itself—the Qur’an and Sayings of the Prophet . In an<br />
hour or two, a reader can finally know an accurate answer to this<br />
pressing question, an answer without which ignorant fear of the<br />
other will continue to be a ghost that haunts our frightened planet.<br />
—Hamza Yusuf Hanson<br />
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