The Mosaic of Islam

The questions of Perry Anderson are as precise, concise and powerful and the replies of Suleiman Mourad are erudite, accessible and candid…Indispensable * Le Monde *A fascinating conversation which demonstrates that Islam is not a monolith but an extremely complex mosaic. * Le Figaro *A seminal guide to Islam * Morning Star *The Mosaic of Islam is an excellent primer on the faith’s beginnings and its spread throughout the world…the text’s straightforward and plainspoken approach makes it the essential book to read about Islam, especially if one is only going to read one book on the subject. – Ron Jacobs * Counterpunch *Suleiman Mourad’s lucid guide to Islam’s origins and its imponderables is an instructive and non-polemical work that should be in the pocket of every Government minister, MP, journalist, editor and producer who might have to deal with Muslims, at home or overseas. – Tim Llewellyn * Times Literary Supplement *

Suleiman Ali Mourad received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2004. Professor Mourad’s research and publications focus on medieval Islamic history and religious thought, including jihad ideology, sacredness of Jerusalem, Qur’anic studies, and the presentation of Jesus and Mary in the Qur’an and Islamic tradition. He is the co-author of The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period, co-editor of Jerusalem: Idea and Reality, and author of Early Islam between Myth and History.Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, English Questions, and The New Old World. He teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.