The words and deeds of Mohammed are the ideal pattern to be followed by all Muslims at all times.
Mohammed’s speech and actions are called the Sunna and are recorded in the Traditions (the Hadith).
The Traditions are more important in the daily practice and world-view of a Muslim than the Koran. Without the Traditions there can be no Islam. There is no subject so great or small that it is not covered. Ethics, jihad, sex, slavery, art and everyday habits are all described in great detail.
The Traditions are a tactical manual of Islamic politics and are a key to understanding Islam.
The Islamic Trilogy—Koran, Sira, Hadith Islam is a political system, a culture and a religion based upon the Koran, Sira (life of Mohammed) and Hadith (the Traditions).
The Islamic Trilogy series integrates the three primary texts to reveal the entire Islamic political doctrine of the treatment of non-Muslims.
The Trilogy is authoritative and fact-based. All content can be confirmed by the use of reference numbers in the primary source documents. The knowledge is integrated—all of the primary sources are used to give the complete picture of Islam’s political doctrine.
Bill Warner is the pen name of Bill French (born 1941, United States), a writer, critic of Islam, and the founder of the Center for the Study of Political Islam. He is a former Tennessee State University physics professor. He is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as part of a core group of 10 Anti-Muslim hard-liners.
Warner has said that his focus is on the political aspects of Islamic doctrine related to kafirs (non-Muslims) rather than on the beliefs of contemporary Muslims. He differentiates Islam as a religion and what he refers to as Political Islam. Warner defines "political Islam," which he also calls Islamism, "as a belief that Islam should control society and politics, not simply personal religious life."
This book had been sitting on my bookshelf (and before that, in a box) for literally 20+ years. I finally decided to read it b/c I had enjoyed several other books by Fallada (Rudolf Dietzen) so much, "Kleiner Mann - Was nun?" and "Every Man Dies Alone," the latter book what I consider to be perhaps the best fictional account of life under the Nazi dictatorship.
This long book did not disappoint. I really consider Fallada a remarkable storyteller. His attention to detail, his ability to weave remarkable characters into a Zeitroman is just amazing. This book, a kind of Hero's Journey during the hyper inflation of the mid to late 1920s in Berlin, is replete with great insights into that time as well as the characters Fallada created and obviously cared about so much. Just a brilliant weaving of storylines that highlight human frailty but with--which is perhaps unique to this author--just enough hope in the human species to keep one interested.