A Washington Post Book World Rave for 2005 In the aftermath of 9/11, Yaroslav Trofimov spent three years crisscrossing the Islamic world to create this unprecedented report. Mingling with ordinary Muslims, prominent clerics, and heads of state alike, he paints a ground-level picture of Islamic life as it is being changed by the Western war on terror. A sensitive, provocative portrait of a critical period in Muslim history, Faith at War introduces surprising ties between the Islamic world and our own. Yaroslav Trofimov , who reported from the Middle East for a variety of publications during the 1990s and speaks Arabic, joined The Wall Street Journal in 1999 and became the newspaper''s roving foreign correspondent for the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia and the Balkans in 2001. He now lives with his family in Rome. For more information, please visit www.faithatwar.com.

Drawing on reporting from more than a dozen Islamic countries, Faith at War offers an unforgettable portrait of the Muslim world after September 11. Choosing to invert the question of what "they" have done to "us," Wall Street Journal reporter Yaroslav Trofimov examines the unprecedented American intrusion in the Muslim heartland and the ripples it has caused far beyond the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. What emerges is a penetrating portrait of people, faith, and countries better known in caricature than reported detail. The ordinary Muslims, influential clerics, warlords, jihadis, intellectuals and heads of state we meet are engaged in conversations that reveal the Muslim world to us from a new, unexpected perspective. In Mali, one of the most successful democracies in Africa, we encounter Ousmane Madani Haidara, an influential cleric who sees Wahhabi extremists, rather than his country''s secular government, as the real enemy of the true faith. In Saudi Arabia, we explore the bizarre world of exporting dead bodies from a kingdom that bars the burial of non-Muslims. On a U.S.

Navy aircraft carrier floating just off the coast of Pakistan in October 2001, we witness the mechanics of war: the onboard assembly of bombs that, hours later, are seen on television exploding in Kabul. And in Iraq, we accompany Trofimov as he negotiates his escape from an insurgent mob, rides in a Humvee with trigger-happy GIs, and gets lectured by a Shiite holy man on why America is the foe of mankind. Whether exploring the badlands of the Sahara or a snow-covered village of Bosnian mujahedeen, Faith at War helps us understand the hidden relationships and often surprising connections, so crucial to America''s future, that link the Islamic world to our own. "This book deserves a wide readership. The Muslims don''t understand us, we don''t understand them. Faith at War goes a long way toward solving the second part of that dismal equation."'” Philip Caputo, The New York Times Book Review "Part travel book, part political and cultural commentary, part adventure story and altogether [a] superb, gracefully written guide . Each tile is exquisitely wrought .

This book deserves a wide readership. The Muslims don''t understand us, we don''t understand them. Faith at War goes a long way toward solving the second part of that dismal equation."'” Philip Caputo, The New York Times Book Review "Yaroslav Trofimov''s far-ranging Faith at War : Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, From Baghdad to Timbuktu is a humane, beautifully reported trip around the turbulent Muslim world."'” The Washington Post "Trofimov covers Islam for The Wall Street Journal , speaks Arabic, and is well positioned to comment on events surrounding the war against militant Islam. His book provides firsthand reports from the Islamic world from countries such as Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Iraq; not the theorizing of talking heads we often get on the news, which is so often mistaken."'” Bill Crawford, National Review Online "A book full of bleak stories about the state of America''s relationship with the Islamic world.