Religious thinkers, political leaders, lawmakers, writers, and philosophers have shaped the 1,400-year-long development of the world's second-largest religion. But who were these people? What do we know of their lives and the ways in which they influenced their societies?<BR />  <BR /> In <I>Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives</I>, the distinguished historian of Islam Chase F. Robinson draws on the long tradition in Muslim scholarship of...
