That's a good point, our government is racking up debt
faster than locust on a wheat field, and we're arguing about gay - marriage, race and still
abortion issues.
Its three volumes include more
than 300 articles on key individuals (from Abraham, al - Ghazali and Rumi to Malcolm X, Salman Rushdie and Osama bin Laden), empires (such as those of the Mughals and Ottomans), contemporary countries (Algeria, Indonesia, Syria and so on), important doctrines (including those related to
abortion, the afterlife,
fasting and suicide), and groups and movements often in the headlines (such as Hamas, al - Qaeda and the Nation of Islam).