This book is aimed at the general reader, not at the specialist who naturally will look for more exhaustive and detailed analysis, and for more information. It is also as an average Muslim that I have written. I am not a theologian nor am I a trained anthropologist. I felt that the way in which an average Muslim with some education judges matters might prove of greater interest to students in modern universities than the views of a theologian, who might interpret things with greater precision but display a greater degree of rigidity in his outlook, or those of an anthropologist who may have lost his faith in religion altogether. What I have attacked is the impression that anybody is really irreligious. It is that impression which misleads Muslim students in college and university in daily contact with people who seem to be indifferent to religious values.
