Introduction: Inside the house

Part one: A millennium of power. What is Islam?

Origins of the Quran

Who is a Muslim today?

The Sunni-Shiʻa schism

What is the Sharia?

Who is a Sufi?

Part two: The rise of anger. A hundred years of humiliation

Who is an Islamist?

Who is a Salafi? Or a Wahhabi?

Who is a jihadi?

Who is a Kharijite, or Takfiri?

Part three: The rise of the West and the loss of Muslim confidence. Dignity

The Jews

Education

Women

Sex

Part four: Islam's global staying power. God is alive

Rights of the sacred

The family table

The next life

Conclusion: The way forward

Appendix: Middle Eastern thinkers' calls for a regional union.