Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist who focuses on civil society and religion. He lives in Beijing and Berlin, where he writes and teaches.
"..a chilling piece of history told with a novelist’s skill.”
A Mosque in Munich recounts the improbable history of the Islamic Center of Munich, which has its roots in Nazi efforts to use Islam to attack the Soviet Union. Based on newly discovered archives and interviews, the book forces a rethink of our current policies toward Islam.
Publisher's Weekly has called the book "…a probing saga of militant Islamism rooted in a Munich mosque in a Cold War strategy gone wrong. "