Teaching Islam (Aar Teaching Religious Studies Series)

Rating:
Summary: Sexual License for Men Slavery for Women
Review: The author of this book fails to mention the Bukhari Hadith in which Mohammed states that "women are deficient in intellect." Bukhari was a scholar who collected the sayings and teachings of Mohammed, a separate documents from the Koran. The Hadith are considered to be of nearly equal authority to the Koran. Mohammed was asked about the fact that the testimony of one man is equal to the testimony of two women, his explanation being that "women are deficient in intellect." Under classical Islam men may marry up to four women, divorce them at will, and have sex with all the slave women he owns. There is no effective check on male sexuality only women's. Someone this information never made it into the book

Rating:
Summary: Lots of good information for the professional
Review: This book is really intended to help college level instructors of religion who lack a thorough grasp of Islam. And the book does a pretty good job at that. However, some of the book is rather esoteric for most undergraduate survey classes. It is not intended for casual reading on the topic of Islam. The AAR is a great group and this book should be helpful to the college instructor who is more of a generalist and finds him/herself teaching a class in which Islam is a major theme.
So, good book for the intended purpose.