Vartan Gregorian is president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Born in Tabriz, Iran of Armenian parents, he received his elementary education in Iran, secondary education in Lebanon, and higher education in the United States. He has served as president of Brown University, president of the New York Public Library, and founding dean and provost of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. President Clinton awarded him the National Humanities Medal in 1998.
"In this slim volume, Gregorian offers a survey of the history, theology and challenges in modern, democratic societies. Gregorian, the president the the Carnegie Corp. of New York and former president of Brown University, warns against stereotyping and inflammatory characterizations of the religion and advocates understanding as a path to tolerance." -- The Houston Chronicle, 7/1/2003 "Gregorian is a national treasure, one of the most interesting intellects and personalities in the United States... [He] writes with delightful clarity, an effective sense of irony, and a rich knowledge of the subject. He presents it as complex--unapologetically--but then delivers details with brisk simplicity." --Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun, 6/15/2003 "An exceptionally readable, panoramic view of the Islamic world." --S. P. Blackburn, Hartford Seminary, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 4/1/2004 "While many in the Western media have depicted Islam with broad strokes to the point of caricature, Gregorian reminds readers that it is unfair to generalize so wantonly about a religion that encompasses more than a billion people. This book is brief, but its scope is ambitious... Gregorian competently presses home the point that Islam is a tremendously diverse religion that has changed considerably throughout its history." -- Publishers Weekly, 5/15/2003 "For, the scholar - he was trained as a historian at Stanford - has also written Islam: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith. The book, aimed at non-scholarly readers across America, pleads for a positive understanding of that religion that believes in the philosophy of reconciliation." -- India Abroad, 10/1/2003 "the perfect primer" --Karen Elliott House, Wall Street Journal, 11/11/2006
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