Name: Islam : A Short History
Brand: Modern Library / Random House
SKU: 71965
Price: 16.95 USD
Availability: InStock

Islam : A Short History

By Armstrong, Karen

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Book details

Author: Armstrong, Karen
Publisher: Modern Library / Random House, NY
Published: 2002
Language: English
Format: Softcover
Pages: 230 pp, b/w maps
Dimensions: 13 x 20 cm / 5 x 8 inches
Age group: Adult
ISBN-13: 9780812966183
ISBN-10: 081296618X
Topic: History of Islam
Item #: 71965

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.