Religion: Around the Kaaba

What is the faith of the world's 315 million Moslems, who follow Mohammed, the camel driver, and at the same time revere Jesus as a great spiritual leader? The world's 787 million Christians, who follow Jesus, the carpenter, and hardly ever think of Mohammed at all, need to know, for what Moslems think and do in the years ahead will make a lot of difference to the West. Yet there is a dearth of interpreters. One of the most surprising since Lawrence of Arabia is a Polish Jew named Leopold Weiss, who is now...

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