This text is based on the highly successful BBC series 'What Do Muslims Believe?', for which Professor John Bowker drew on interviews with Muslims across the broad spectrum of Islam.
Concentrating on popular and major misunderstandings about Islam, Professor Bowker's interviewees - who include leading Muslim thinkers - address such issues as the interpretation of the Qur'an, penalties for theft and adultery, the concept of holy war, the role of women, and the scope of Islamic education.
Professor Bowker's book provides a welcome forum for such diversity, and allows these eloquent voices to speak for themselves.
