Queen's Quarterly, March 22nd, 2003
Unlike Jesus or Buddha, Mohammed not only established a powerful spiritual tradition, he also spent the last ten years of his Life laying the foundations of an Islamic empire on earth. In the centuries after the Prophet's death in 632, the Islamic world expanded at an astounding pace from Iberia to the Far East. Since then, Islam's extraordinary resilience has seen it through many setbacks and genuine disasters, but the past century has presented it with a whole new set of challenges regarding politics, religion and imperialism. And, oddly enough, it may be that a nineteenth-century French a...
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