THE UNSEEN FACE OF ISLAM
By Bill Musk
Monarch Books. 288 pages
ISBN 1 85424 604 6
Bill Musk has done extensive research in this newly-updated book dealing with 'folk-Islam' or 'unofficial Islam'
Folk-Islam is the whole realm of practices and superstitions that a Muslim does and believes in to gain power over the normal events of life. The author actually makes the case that even though much of folk-Islam is found only in the hadiths (Muslim traditions) and not the Qur'an itself, some elements of folk-Islam are found in the Qur'an and so are very much a part of orthodox Islam.