Islam for Dummies by Malcolm Clark, Malek Chebel

Explore the riches of France's second religion: Islam

Who is Prophet Muhammad? What are the main currents of Islam? What is Ramadan, Sufism, Circumcision? What are the five pillars of Muslim worship? What are the differences between Shia and Sunnism?

Today, more than 4.5 million French people are Muslims, but Islam remains relatively unknown. Far from any ideology and devoid of polemical aims , this book sets itself the task of explaining what Islam is - its history, its foundations, its practice, its culture and its many faces - in a simple and clear way.

Curious readers of all religions and from all walks of life, this book will open the doors of the Muslim world to you.

About the authors: Malcolm Clark, Malek Chebel

Malcolm Clark : Emeritus Professor at the University of Butler in Indianapolis, Malcolm Clark is a historian of religions. Anthropologist, historian and renowned writer of Algerian origin, Malek Chebel adapted this text. A thinker of a modern religion integrated into the Republic, he pleaded for an Islam of the Enlightenment. His many publications all tend towards a common goal: to explain his culture and his religion with pedagogy and without taboos.

Malek Chebel : Anthropologist, historian and writer, specialist of international reputation, Malek Chebel was born in Algeria in 1953. Thinker of a modern religion and integrated into the Republic, Malek Chebel pleads for an Islam of the Enlightenment. Its publications all tend towards a common goal: to explain and make its culture and religion understood by as many people as possible, including young people. At First editions, he is notably the author of Le Coran pour les Nuls (18,000 copies sold, 2009).