The story of Islam is one we urgently need to hear. Now Huston Smith, the legendary authority on comparitive religions, summons a lifetime of scholarship and insight to offer this welcome listener's guide to the most 'persistently misunderstood religion in the world.' Smith takes us back to Islam's founding lineage, revealing its inspiration in Greek philosophy and common roots with both Judaism and Chrstiainity. With so much in common - most of all precept of one all-powerful God - how has Islam come to inspire fear and bewilderment in the West? Join Huston Smith as he makes accessible this difficult subject, including topics such as the prophet Mohammed's founding of Islam in the seventh century, his flight to Medina, and final battle to bring one God to the tribes of the Mideast, The Koran: its sacred law mentions mercy 192 times, and vengeance only 17 times, yet is perceived as a tool for violence far beyond Islamic borders, women under Islam: the suprising truth about the rights of women as described by the Koran, and much more. Abridged. 1 CD. 70 minutes.
