WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE QUR'AN - A HISTORY OF
ISLAM & THE UNITED STATES You will be fascinated by this
fast-paced, objective history of the world from a perspective you
have never imagined. Current events will come into focus in the
back drop of 1,400 years of inconceivable yet true events and
conflicts. Thousands of books, documents and articles have been
researched over several years in preparation for this book. In
2006, Keith Ellison became the first Muslim elected to the United
States Congress. He swore in on a Qur'an. Most Americans know
little about the Qur'an, who wrote it and how Islam spread. Within
100 years of Mohammed's death, his followers conquered North
Africa, the Holy Land, Persia, Spain - from the Indian Ocean to the
Atlantic Ocean. President Barak Obama stated in Cairo, Egypt, June
4, 2009: "Islam has always been a part of America's story." Indeed,
Islam has affected the Western World for 1,400 years, from 622 AD
to today's headlines. This book will give you a fascinating glimpse
into captivating events and amazing stories- you won't want to put
it down Find answers to how Islam is connected to: The stirrup for
riding horses, who invented it and how Muslims used it to win
military conquests? Santa Claus - how Islam caused the story of
Saint Nicholas to spread from the Byzantine Empire to Western
Europe in 1087 AD? How did Muslim Ottoman Turks invading the
Byzantine Empire resulted in the Crusades, 1095-1272 AD? What did
Marco Polo say was the origin of the word "assassin"? What happened
to the Seven Churches of mentioned in the Book of Revelation? How
did the 1000 year old Byzantine Enpire get conquered? What did
Sultan Mehmet II do to Constantinople in 1453 that led Columbus to
set sail in 1492? Dracula - What is the real-life account of "Vlad
the Impaler" in 1462, (not Bram Stoker's 1897 fiction novel)? What
did Martin Luther say in 1529 about Muslim Turkish Sultan Suleiman
the Magnificent who was laying siege to Vienna, Austria? Who did
Captain John Smith fight in Hungary in 1600 before founding
Virginia in 1607? Who did James Oglethorpe fight in Serbia in 1717
before founding the Colony of Georgia? What happened to a Pilgrim
ship returning to England to trade for supplies in 1625 when they
met a Moroccon pirate man-of-war? September 11, 1683 - How the
Muslims loss in the Battle of Vienna lead to coffee and croissant
pastries spreading across Europe? How was Islamic expansion funded
by the slave trade of millions Africans and Europeans? How did
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's fighting the North African
Barbary Pirates, 1805-1815, lead to the U.S. Marine nickname
"leathernecks, ' Marine "mamluke" sword, Marine Anthem "From the
halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli"? What happened to over
1.5 million Armenian Christians when President Woodrow Wilson
failed to convince the U.S. Senate in 1922 to adopt Armenia as a
protectorate - similar to Puerto Rico? What was the impact of oil
being discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938? You will not be the same
after you have learned What Every American Needs to Know about the
Qur'an. (288 pages, paperback)
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