Islam has been more misunderstood than any other religion. In this book, which has long been regarded as a classic of its kind and which is now at last available in paperback, Frithjof Schuon explains the basis of Islamic belief `from within`. T. S. Eliot described Schuon as the most impressive writer in the field of comparative religion that he had ever encountered. Taking as his point of departure the theme that Islam is `the meeting between God and Man`, Schuon brilliantly and lucidly expounds the Islamic view of life, the role of the Prophet and the Quran, and the nature of Sufism and the path of spiritual ascent.