Religion is not faith, but the history of faith. Behind us are fourteen centuries of furious debate about what it means to be a Muslim, differing interpretations of the Koran, tribal feuds, crusades and world wars. In the 21st century, Islam entered the era of the Reformation, marked by a clash between those who reject modernism and fanatically return to the “foundations” of their faith, and those who seek to reconcile religious values with the realities of the modern world. According to Reza Aslan, one of the world's leading experts in biblical studies and Koranic studies, it is the latter that will determine the future of the Muslim world. “Before you is the history of Islam. This is a story enshrined in the memories of the first generation of Muslims and systematized by the earliest biographers of the Prophet Muhammad... The past is behind us, as are the times of the idealized and absolutely imaginary idea of it, formed by the puritans and fundamentalists who seek to recreate it. The next chapter in the history of Islam will be written exclusively by those who are willing to look to the future. The wave of reforms cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is here. We all live in her era." (Reza Aslan)