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The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity
"In The Heart of Islam one of the great intellectual figures in Islamic history offers a timely presentation of the core spiritual and social values of Islam: peace, compassion, social justice, and respect for the other. Seizing this unique moment in…
The heirs of Muhammad: Islam's first century and the origins of the Sunni-Shia split
[In this book, the author] recounts the lives of the handful of individuals - the first four Caliphs, the Prophet's widows and the conquering generals - who led and influenced Islam after the death of Muhammad. Within this fifty-year span of conquest…
The Heirs of Plato: a study of the Old Academy
"The Heirs of Plato is the first book exclusively devoted to an in-depth study of the various directions in philosophy taken by Plato's followers in the first seventy years or so following his death in 347 B.C. - the period generally known as 'The…
The Heretics: The Story of Heresy Through the Ages Told in Biographical Sketches of the Great Religious Rebels from Simon Magus to Leo Tolstoy
Essays on the lives and beliefs of famous rebels of Christian history, including Simon Magus, Origen, Bruno, Luther, Servetus, Spinoza and Leo Tolstoy.