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The storyline of Islam is one we urgently need to hear. Now Huston Smith, the legendary specialist on comparative religions, summons a lifetime of scholarship and insight to provide this welcome listener's guide to the most persistently misinterpreted religion on the planet. Smith calls for us back again to Islam's founding lineage, exposing its inspiration in Greek idea and its own common origins with both Judaism and Christianity. With so much in common, almost all of all the precept of one all-powerful God, how has Islam come to motivate fear and bewilderment in the West? Join Huston Smith as he makes accessible this difficult subject, including:

• The prophet Mohammed's founding of Islam in the seventh century, his air travel to Medina, and final battle to bring one God to the tribes of the Mideast
• The Koran: its sacred laws mentions mercy 192 times, and vengeance only 17 times, yet is regarded as an instrument for violence way beyond Islamic edges
• Women under Islam: the amazing fact about the protection under the law of women as described in the Koran
• and a lot more

Distilled from Huston Smith's monumental work Religions of the World music seminar, and filled with a new, updated intro, Understanding Islam brings a tone of understanding to the most challenging of the wisdom traditions. Notice: Excerpted from the full-length music course Religions of the World.