# Understanding Islam

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- Book: [Understanding Islam](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-w-lippman/understanding-islam) ([Understanding Islam.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-w-lippman/understanding-islam.md))
- Authors: [Thomas W. Lippman](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-w-lippman)
- Publisher: Plume
- ISBN: 978-04-5201-160-1
- Pages: 208
- Published: 1995-09-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A little over thirteen centuries ago, the prophet Muhammad converted a few Arab desert tribes to the belief in a single god, Allah, thus founding the religion of Islam. Within a century, that belief had...