The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of...

'One of the best opening lines of any novel' Guardian 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always...

"In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India" von Edward Luce bietet eine umfassende Analyse der sozialen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Transformationen Indiens im 21. Jahrhundert. Luce, ein ehemaliger Korrespondent der...