Translated to Arabic, 'Introduction à la sociologie de l'islam: de l'animisme a l'universalisme' (Introduction to the Sociology of Islam: From Animism to Totalitarianism), by the important religious scholar and sociologist Joseph Chelhod (1919-1994), first published in 1958. The author covers the rise of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and the development of society from animism to a homogeneous society based on a monotheistic faith.