Download or read book Islam Without Allah? written by Colin Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking and controversial work locates the antecedents of today's Islamic 'fundamentalism' in 16th and 17th century Iran and the forced conversion of the Sunnite population of Iran to the largely alien doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism; the concomitant extirpation of Sufism and philosophy; and the gradual rise of the 'faqih' or jurist.