{"product_id":"the-imam-of-time-f-w-burleigh-9780996046978","title":"The Imam of Time: A Novel of Then and Now","description":"\u003cp\u003eIMAGINE YOU ARE in the raging streets of Tehran, not with the people who are demonstrating against a brutally repressive government, but you are there against the people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour name is Ahmed, and you are part of the force sent to crush the demonstrators, but you do not want to be there. The violence sickens you. People are being savagely beaten. A woman near you is shot and falls to the pavement, blood streaming from her mouth. As she lays there dying, she looks at you as if pleading to know why her life has been taken from her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe demonstrators surround you and shove you because you are one of the oppressors, but you throw your helmet and truncheon to the ground, and you cry out, \"This is not Islam!\" You keep shouting it, and finally you flee the violent streets. You return to the town of your birth, wishing you could know authentic Islam-the Islam of Muhammad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this powerful time travel fantasy, author F.W. Burleigh gives Ahmed his wish by sending him into 7th century Arabia, first as a slave and then as Muhammad's scribe. He gets the experience he longed for, but it is not what he anticipated, for he has entered a world of stomach-turning violence brought about by the very founder of the religion in which he was raised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter witnessing a series of atrocities (as recorded in stunning detail in Islam's canonical literature), Ahmed's faith crumbles and he becomes a warner of what is to come out of Arabia. He ends up trapped in Mecca at the time of Muhammad's invasion and is about to be slain when he returns to present day Iran in such a way that he is taken to be the Imam of Time, the long-awaited savior who will spread the Islamic revolution to the entire world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis message is not what the mullahs expect. His is a unifying message of spiritual tolerance that threatens the clerical rulers, and they plot his downfall. In the end, he is arrested, tortured, and charged with crimes against God and man. As a way of destroying his message, he is given a show trial in which his contemporary origin is exposed. He is executed by hanging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough he dies, he gives birth to something new. Even before his execution, a thousand more people step forward claiming the experience of time. The disciples, at first in hiding, overcome their fear and go forward to preach the unifying message that Ahmed has brought forth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe invite you to join Ahmed on his journey into 7th century Arabia and to experience the startling events that occur in Iran after his emergence from his experience of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e F. W. Burleigh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0996046976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780996046978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zenga Books LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.84d","brand":"F. W. Burleigh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47452600991999,"sku":"9780996046978","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fac55f30-cb99-44cb-b4fb-c1db9e0d2c84.jpg?v=1761929391","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-imam-of-time-f-w-burleigh-9780996046978","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}