A Thinking Person’s Guide to Islam: The Essence of Islam in Twelve Verses from the Quran by Ghazi bin Muhammad

This book is an attempt to positively say what Islam actually is—and always was—as well as what it is not.

The world is at a crossroads today. A tiny minority of Muslims seems to be bent on hijacking the religion of Islam and bringing it into perpetual conflict with the rest of the world. Because of their actions, very few non-Muslims understand the real difference between Islam as it has always been, and the distorted perversions of Islam today. This book is an attempt to positively say what Islam actually is—and always was—as well as what it is not.

About the author:

H.R.H. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal (born in Amman on the 15th of October 1966) is the nephew of the late King Al-Hussein bin Talal of Jordan. He received his BA from Princeton University in 1988 Summa cum laude; his first Ph.D. from Cambridge University, U.K., in 1993, and his second Ph.D. from Al-Azhar University in Cairo 2010.