Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam from Baghdad to Timbuktu

A Washington Post Book World Rave for 2005In the aftermath of 9/11 Yaroslav Trofimov spent three years crisscrossing the Islamic world to create this unprecedented report. Mingling with ordinary Muslims prominent clerics and heads of state alike he paints a ground-level picture of Islamic life as it is being changed by the Western war on terror. A sensitive provocative portrait of a critical period in Muslim history Faith at War introduces surprising ties between the Islamic world and our own.