Warriors of the Prophet, The Struggle for Islam Book

As the entire world reels from the horrors of the recent terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, responsibility for the slaughter has been blamed on extremist Islamic militants. The world's one billion Muslims now face the prospect of military strikes against Arab and Muslim countries, to be launched by a coalition of Western powers determined to crush the terrorist network identified as responsible, as well its backers. Political Islam has once again been thrown into the spotlight, as the West seeks to understand and confront this phenomenon.

In Warriors of the Prophet: The Struggle for Islam, former Financial Times Middle East correspondent Mark Huband seeks to explain the history, politics, and reality of political Islam on the ground, in countries as diverse as Morocco and Afghanistan. Huband reports on the major upheavals of the past decade in the Islamic world and depicts them against a background of deep historical research and personal familiarity with the key figures in the wide array of Islamist movements in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.

Warriors of the Prophet is an authoritative account of the history of political Islam, from its birth in Egypt in the late 19th century, to the violent clashes and political battles of the past decade. Combining reportage, political analysis, and vivid description, it provides a clear, unbiased analysis of political Islam and well-informed detail of the world in which it has become a political force.