The story of Islam is one we urgently need to hear. Now Huston Smith, the legendary authority on comparative religions, summons a lifetime of scholarship and insight to offer this welcome listener’s guide to the most “persistently misunderstood religion in the world.” Smith takes us back to Islam’s founding lineage, revealing its inspiration in Greek philosophy and common roots with both Judaism and Christianity. With so much in common – most of all the precept of one all-powerful God – how has Islam come to inspire fear and bewilderment in the West? Join Huston Smith as he makes accessible this difficult subject.Distilled from Huston Smith’s monumental work Religions of the World audio seminar, and complete with a new, updated introduction, Understanding Islam brings a voice of understanding to this most challenging of the wisdom traditions.