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'Above all else, Druidry means following a spiritual path rooted in the green Earth' John Michael Greer

'What Do We Believe?', a new series from Granta Books, introduces different beliefs from across the world in lively, accessible and intelligent short books.

';Elucidating . . . describes the basics of Islam, including the Qur'an and hadith, the life of Muhammad and the history of Islam and Muslims.'Publishers Weekly (starred review) ';The world is green and beautiful; and God has appointed you as His trustee over it.'The Prophet Muhammad Islam is one of the great monotheistic religions of the world. It produced a magnificent civilization, envied for its science and learning, spanning over a thousand years. The teachings of Islam emphasize unity, humility, forgiveness and love of God. The Qur'an sings the virtues of knowledge and rationality. The life of Muhammad demonstrates the importance of tolerance, social justice and brotherhood. In Sufism, Islam presents a mystical system based on love and devotion. So why is Islam associated with hatred, violence, obstinacy and bigotry? Ziauddin Sardar examines the true teachings of Islam and explores the reality of the Muslim world today. Emphasizing the diversity of Islam and its ideals, he assesses the role Islam plays in the lives of ordinary Muslims and how Islamic beliefs and practices help Muslims understand the modern world. ';Ziauddin Sardar is arguably one of the best-known Muslim public intellectuals in the world today. He is an iconoclast, often a gadfly and undoubtedly one of the few Muslim intellectuals who span the proverbial Two Cultures.'Muslim News ';Among the many sanguine introductions to Islam, Sardar's moves immediately to the front rank for its readability.'Booklist

Surprisingly funny and refreshingly different from any other writings on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Sharon and My Mother in Law describes Suad Amiry's experience of living on the West Bank from the early eighties to the present. Tells about the life and neighbourhood gossip, family history and the struggle to live a normal life.

A new edition of The Granta Book of Reportage featuring distinguished writers and reporters - John Simpson, James Fenton, Martha Gellhorn, Germaine Greer, Ryszard Kapuscinski - this book covers some of the signal events of our time.

'These [How to Read] books let you encounter thinkers eyeball to eyeball by analysing passages from their work' Terry Eagleton, New Statesman

';A curious, often amusing travelogue of [Sardar's] quest for understanding and the Muslims he has encountered along his journeys.'Publishers Weekly Ziauddin Sardar, one of the foremost Muslim intellectuals in Britain, learned the Koran at his mother's knee in Pakistan. As a young student in London he set out to grasp the meaning of his religion, and, hopefully, to find ';paradise,' his quest leading him throughout the Muslim world, from Iran to China to Turkey. Along the way he accepts that he may never reach paradisebut it's the journey that's important. At a time when the view of Islam in the West is so often distorted and simplistic, Desperately Seeking Paradiseself-mocking, frank and passionateis essential reading. ';Intoxicating . . . upon finishing the book, I turned back and started reading it all over again.'Kamila Shamise, New Statesman ';At once and earnest and humorous, light-hearted and profound, this is a book that displays a sustained capacity for self-questioning of a kind that has few parallels in the liberal West.'The Independent ';This challenging book not only acts as a guide for Muslims but provides insight and clarification for those outside the Islamic faith.'Financial Times ';The only funny book I've read about Islam.'Mail on Sunday

Not so much the state we're in as the mess we're getting into. Reports and stories from the frontiers of climate change and environmental (and human) catastrophe.

Set in the early days of the Russian Revolution, Tarabas tells the story of Nicholas Tarabas, a young revolutionary ignominously dispatched from St Petersburg to New York by his outraged family.

Reports from one of the Worlds greatest war correspondents

One of the last artistic expressions of life under communism, this novel captures the atmosphere in Prague between 1983 and 1987, where a dance could be broken up by the secret police, a traffic offence could lead to surveillance and where contraband books were the currency of the underworld.

'These [How to Read] books let you encounter thinkers eyeball to eyeball by analysing passages from their work' Terry Eagleton, New Statesman

In the early 1970s, Ian Frazier left a small town in Ohio to move to a loft in lower Manhattan. This book is his account of the city over thirty years - where every block is an event and where the denizens are larger than life.

'These [How to Read] books let you encounter thinkers eyeball to eyeball by analysing passages from their work' Terry Eagleton, New Statesman

Reports from one of the Worlds greatest war correspondents

'Wells Tower's stories are written, thrillingly, in authentic American vernacular - violent, funny, bleak and beautiful. You need to read them, now' Michael Chabon

When Elena falls in love with Riccardo, she also falls in love with the idea of a world beyond her sheltered life in rural Italy. And when she loses him, she gives up her hopes for the future and her expectations of happiness, filling the sudden void in her life with her son and brother-in-law.

Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilisations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked.

The politics of religion around the world

Features articles by: Tim Parks, on the joys of commuting from Verona to Milan every day; Christopher de Bellaigue, on tracking down the Armenians in Turkey; Jeremy Treglown, following in the footsteps of V. S. Pritchett in Spain; Jeremy Seabrook, on being separated from his twin; and, Todd McEwen, on Cary Grant's trousers.

The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries, returns to print, with a tender, affecting, and of course funny account of his friendship with Alan Bates, written as he waits in Barbados for Harold Pinter to turn up.

Britain invented the factory - Manchester was the world's first factory city. Where are they now? The anser, mainly, is China. An issue devoted to how and where we made and make things, from strawberries in the fields of Herefordshire to the car plants of Korea.

Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over. An issue that ranges from English fox- hunters to the rice-planters of the Ganges delta.

Collection & anthologies of various literacy from John MCGahern on his mother's struggle for health & happiness in Catholic Ireland, Alexander Fuller on bearing a child in Africa, Ryszard Kapuscinski on his memories of the Second World War plus writings from Edmund White, Paul Theroux, Jim Lewis and others.

A celebration of Granta's first quarter century with new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Martin Amis, Paul Auster, William Boyd, Amit Chaudhul, Richard Ford, James Hamilton-Paterson, Jan Morris, Blake Morrison, Jayne Anne Phillips, Paul Theroux and Edmund White.

Everybody has been a reluctant or willing member of one: the family, the school, the football side, the quiz team. Group photographs are their souvenir. In this issue of "Granta", writers take out their group photographs and evoke the times, places and people they used to know.

Granta magazine's 71st issue, "What We Think of America", was a prescient reflection of the USA's deepening political unpopularity among people outside its own borders. But what do Americans themselves think of their country's new imperialism - and of the world it rules?

This edition is a fiction special and includes new short stories by Rachel Cusk, Edmund White and Jonathan Ley.

This edition centres around celebrity, both good and bad. Contributions include: the search for Hitler's doctor; an Irish republican looks at the Queen Kyle Stone; how Hillary Clinton's home views Hillary; and the cannibal emperor of the Central African Republic.

Granta Magazine publishes the best of fiction, memoir, reportage and photography, only using work that has never been published before. Contributions include: Nik Cohn on "Bounce in New Orleans"; "Dr Feelgood" by Hugo Williams; Ian Jack on Kathleen Ferrier; and "Frank Sinatra" by Richard Williams.