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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: Worlds of Islam by James McDougall read by James McDougall
Description: A sweeping global history of Islam, tracing the 1,400-year evolution of a diverse community of faith and its place in the modern world
“Anyone who wants to understand not just the past of Islam but its present and future should read Worlds of Islam.”—Reza Aslan, author of No god but God
From its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. Over the span of a thousand years, armies, missionaries, and merchants carried it to the edges of Europe, the coasts of Southeast Asia, and the remote interior of China. By the nineteenth century, Islam encomp...