Gordon, Matthew

Text and accompanying photographs provide an overview of Islam chronicling the religion's impact historically and in the modern world and discussing its origins, basic beliefs, structure, places of worship, and rites of passage.

A biography of the military leader who became president of Syria in 1970.

Examines the origins and history of Islam, provides information about the beliefs and culture of the religion, and includes extracts and commentary.

Presents an introduction to the development, key principles, sacred texts, rituals, and practices of Islam, the last of the major monotheistic religion to have emerged.

Explores the origin, development, and traditional beliefs of Islam, and discusses its geographical distribution, basic tenets, history, and political involvements.

An illustrated biography of the Islamic religious leader who became the chief political figure in Iran after the overthrow of the shah in 1979.

Examines the life of the current president of Lebanon and that of his predecessor, who was his brother.

Presents volume seven of a fourteen-volume series on World Religions exploring the origin, development, and traditional beliefs of Islam, and discusses its geographical distribution across the west coast of Africa and into the Middle East and Asia, its basic tenets, history, and political involvements, the Prophet Muhammad, and more.

Chronicles the history of Islam and the Arab world from the seventh life of Muhammad to the collapse of the Islamic empire in the early tenth century, and profiles fifteen key figures.