The Venture of Islam, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam Euclid's Elements won the National Book Award

won the National Book Award for fiction

did Imam al-Ghazali succeed in safeguarding miracles as well as certainty about the world

set against a shining vision of a city where he both does and does not belong

In this brilliant

The Venture of Islam, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam Euclid's Elements won the National Book AwardThe Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle of the twentieth century. This work grew out of the famous course on Islamic civilization that Hodgson created and taught for many years at the University