Winner of the Pulitzer Prize; the National Book Critics Circle Award; the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award; and the American Book Award; the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked; it's "gripping; indelible...a truth about all large American cities.""An epic of American city life...a story of such hypnotic specificity that we re-experience all the shades of hope and anger; pity and fear that living anywhere in late 20th-century America has inevitably provoked." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt; The New York Times
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. The Islam WorldBy William Garrison Jr.Big large-size book with many photographs and articles. Edited by Bernard Lewis; Chapter texts by: Bernard Lewis; Richard Ettinghausen; Oleg Grabar; Fritz Meier; Charles Pellat;A. Shiloah; Edmund Bosworth; Emilio Garcia Gomez; Roger M. Savory; Norman Itzkowitz; S. A. A. Rizvi; Elie Kedourie. Chapter topics:The Faith and the Faithful: the lands and peoples of Islam; (The five pillars of Islam; belief; opinion; and toleration; the rule of law; etc.); the Man-Made Setting: Islamic art and architecture Arabic script; rejection of sculpture; The Mosque: origins Meaning; etc.); Cities and Citizens: The Growth and culture of urban Islam; The Mystic Path: The Sufi tradition; Jewellers with words: The Heritage of Islamic literature; The Dimensions of Sound: Islamic music; philosophy; theory and practice; The Scientific Enterprise; Islamic contributions to the development of science; Armies of the Prophet; Strategy; tactics and weapons in Islamic warfare; Moorish Spain: The golden age of Cordoba and Granada; Land of the Lion and the Sun: The Flowering of Iranian civilization; the Ottoman Empire: The rise and fall of Turkish domination; Muslim India: From the coming of Islam to Independence; Islam Today: Problems and prospects of the 19th and 20th centuries.
