عظماء الدنيا وعظماء الآخرة

A collection of essays by Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud that opens with a poetic piece and closes with meditative, mystically-toned reflections. In between, Mahmoud takes on religious and political themes — including Western ambitions and Israeli-American relations as seen from an Arab perspective — and argues that Islam is, at its core, "a religion of thought and freedom," rejecting predetermined ideological constraints across religious, political and other domains of life.