by José María Gironella · Planeta Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432036248
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«El escándalo del Islam» is the historical essay by José María Gironella, published by Planeta in 1982 in paperback (525 pages, in Spanish).
The author travels through several Islamic countries and analyzes Muslim civilization in the twentieth century, from Muhammad to the era of petrodollars. With his travel experiences in Iran, Kuwait and Egypt, he describes that reality and dares to predict what will happen when eight hundred million followers of the Prophet rise up.
Subtitled «De Mahoma a los petrodólares», it belongs to the Document Collection, number 84, and includes an index and bibliography.
For readers interested in the history and society of the Islamic world, as well as travel essays about the twentieth-century Middle East.
José María Gironella Pous, known in Catalan as Josep Maria Gironella i Pous was a Catalonian Spanish author best known for his fictional work The Cypresses Believe in God, which was published in Spain in 1953 and translated into English in 1955 by Harriet de Onís (1899-1969), a translator who usually specialized in Latin-American fiction.
