Armstrong, Karen
Islam : A Short History Karen Armstrong - New York The Modern Library 2002 - xxxiv,230 Pages 13x19 cm PB - Modern Library Chronicles. .
Include Maps, Glossary, Notes and Index.
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and civil war. In a vital revision of this narrow view of Islam and a distillation of years of thinking and writing about the subject, Karen Armstrong’s short history demonstrates that the world’s fastest-growing faith is a much more complex phenomenon than its modern fundamentalist strain might suggest.
081296618x
Islam
Islamic Empire
297.09
Islam : A Short History Karen Armstrong - New York The Modern Library 2002 - xxxiv,230 Pages 13x19 cm PB - Modern Library Chronicles. .
Include Maps, Glossary, Notes and Index.
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and civil war. In a vital revision of this narrow view of Islam and a distillation of years of thinking and writing about the subject, Karen Armstrong’s short history demonstrates that the world’s fastest-growing faith is a much more complex phenomenon than its modern fundamentalist strain might suggest.
081296618x
Islam
Islamic Empire
297.09