As Muslims grow in numbers, and as Islam’s role in world affairs becomes larger, we’ve begun to see the breakdown in a united fellowship among believers. Iran’s clerics are split, militant fundamentalists clash with students from Islamic universities, moderate Muslim-Americans look nothing like wahhabis from Saudi Arabia. Islam seems to be at war with itself. In Islam in the Modern World one of the foremost Islamic scholars in the United States describes and defends traditional Islam against all the extremist factions that have attempted to coopt the faith and whose self-righteous rhetoric currently shapes our fears and prejudices. Increasingly relevant in today’s world, this book hits all the hot button issues currently surrounding Islam and offers a steady guide through an increasingly factious religion with increasing global relevance.