"On 8 June 632, according to the traditional biography, the Prophet died after a short illness. He had achieved a grea…"

"The attitude to black Africans remains on the whole negative. Some Muslim authors give balanced and factual accounts,…"

"The evidence for the growth of anti-black prejudice comes in the main from two groups of sources. The first of these …"

"The whole question of blackness was discussed in a special essay by Jahiz of Basra (ca. 776-869), one of the greatest…"

"As medieval Christian man could only conceive of religion in terms of a trinity, so his modern descendant can only co…"

"To the modern Western mind, it is not conceivable that men would fight and die in such numbers over mere differences …"

"The three major Middle Eastern religions are significantly different in their relations with the state and their atti…"

"In classical Arabic and in the other classical languages of Islam there are no pairs of terms corresponding to lay an…"

"For the Muslim, religion traditionally was not only universal but also central in the sense that it constituted the e…"

"The overwhelming majority of classical theologians, jurists, and traditionalists [i.e., specialists in the hadith] . …"