The Muslim world is both close and unknown. Claiming nowadays a larger role in the game of human forces, it attracts attention above all by the most contingent images of itself, that of the violence of Islamist groups, or of the absence of democracy in Muslim countries.
This book, which sheds light on the essential orientations of Islam, is more important than ever in order to situate this tradition in its true inner dimension and its expression of the divine. In order to expose the foundations of the Islamic faith, it considers four essential elements: the Muslim nature and perspective, the Koranic doctrine and the function of the Koran, the role of the Prophet, and Sufism.
