So why 4 stars and not 5 to my assessment? It's that I find some of that a little weak book: it is that of the origin and the beginnings of Islam, from page 59. Marchand largely repeats the Islamic légendologie about it. However, recent work (Crone, Gallez of Prémare, ...) have clearly shown that Islam derives from a Judeo-Christian sect, specifically Judeo-Nazarenes. Their millenarian ideology of salvation has been instilled to Arab tribes that are then emancipated from their sponsors to create the dogma that Islam and writings have been completed within two centuries after Muhammad.
This ideology, totalitarian and violent (like all calamitous ideologies of salvation, claiming to "save" all mankind, making every time millions of victims, such as communism), excluded any other who is not pure and therefore deserves the conversion or death, possibly with a temporary phase dhimmitude, that is to say, apartheid / racketeering, our dear islamolâtres rights rightists are quite acceptable). And we want to smoke us with a so-called religion "of love, peace and tolerance!"
Yes, Islam is from the beginning, and it's always the eternal war against all others. We must know and fight ...