Autorentext

Charles Le Gai Eaton was born in Switzerland and educated at Charterhouse and at Kings College, Cambridge. He worked for many years as a teacher and journalist in Jamaica and Egypt (where he embraced Islam in 1951) before joining the British Diplomatic Service. He is now a consultant to the Islamic Cultural Centre in London. His King of the Castle was brought out in a second edition by the Islamic Texts Society in 1990.

Klappentext

A best-selling introduction to contemporary Islam. The author is concerned not simply with Islam in isolation, but with the very nature of religious faith, its spiritual and intellectual foundations and the light it casts upon the mysteries and paradoxes of the human condition.

Inhalt

Table of Contents; Part One. An Approach to the Faith; 1. Islam and Europe; 2. Continuity and Contrast; 3. Truth and Mercy; Part Two. The Making of the Faith; 4. The World of the Book; 5. The Messenger of God; 6. The City of the Prophet; 7. The Successors; 8. The Way of the World; Part Three. The Fruits of the Faith; 9. The Rule of Law; 10. The Human Paradox; 11. Art, Environment and Mysticism; 12. Other Dimensions