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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
I'd like to learn about the different sects and stuff. You know, what's a Sunni vs. a Shia and that kind of thing. Ps.com's Islam for Dummies. Book recommendations would be good too, but I am hoping for some high-level explanations.
Now if we can get some disagreements among the knowledgable, this could be a great thread.
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My dad, Louis B. Hamada, PhD, LittD, wrote several books on the topic, the most helpful probably being "Understanding the Arab World". Published by Thomas Nelson. He had an evangelistic ministry for 20 years that educated western Christians on the needs and methods of Muslim evangelization, and church planted in indigenous Muslim areas. He was also a consultant for Zwemer Institute, US Center for World Missions, Campus Crusade for Christ, Operation Mobalization, etc... and taught at various seminaries (Dallas, Columbia, etc...). He was originally Druze, but came to Christ in 1954.