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No God but One: Allah or Jesus? (with Bonus Content): A Former Muslim Investigates the Evidence for Islam and Christianity
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IN 613, THREE years after the Revelation had begun, Muhammad’s message underwent a dramatic transformation, one that is best summed up in the twofold profession of faith, or shahadah, that would henceforth define both the mission and principles of the movement: There is no god but God, and Muhammad is God’s Messenger.
Reza Aslan • No god but God (Updated Edition): The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
The president’s Cairo speech—that foundational document—offered America’s hand to Muslim leaders who were rooted in Islam and democratically voted into office. The Brotherhood met those criteria and would win at the polls, Israeli experts were certain.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
It was Sir Sayyid’s Kashmiri protégé, Chiragh Ali (1844–95), who most succinctly outlined his mentor’s argument for legal reform. Chiragh Ali was incensed at the way Islam had been portrayed by Europeans as “essentially rigid and inaccessible to change.” The notion that its laws and customs are based “on a set of specific precepts which can neither
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Radical Islam is the Islamic reformation.