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ajiss-1674	Fletcher, Charles	Understanding Islam: A Guide for the Judaeo-Christian Reader by Jerald F. Dirks (Beltsville, MD: amana publishers, 2003. 394 pages.)	2005.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1017	37	51	Divided into ten chapters, Understanding Islam attempts to outline Islam’s beliefs, doctrines, and practices in a manner accessible to the aver- age non-Muslim western reader. Into this array of publica- tions comes Jerald Dirks, who offers his contribution as an attempt to pres- ent an undistorted introduction to Sunni Islam based almost exclusively on the Qur’an and the Sunnah and aimed primarily at the western Christian reader.	cache/ajiss-1674.pdf	txt/ajiss-1674.txt