Islam A Short History

Name: Islam A Short History
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ISBN: 9780679640400

ISBN-10: 0679640401

ISBN-13: 9780679640400

Edition: 2000

Authors: Karen Armstrong

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From one of the world's most foremost historians and thinkers on religious affairs comes a book on the history and destiny of the world's most misunderstood religion, Islam.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/22/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Karen Armstrong is one of the foremost commentators on religious affairs in both Britain and the United States. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun and received a degree at Oxford University.



List of Maps


Preface


Chronology



Beginnings


The Prophet (570-632)


The Rashidun (632-661)


The First Fitnah



Development


The Umayyads and the Second Fitnah


The Religious Movement


The Last Years of the Umayyads (705-750)


The Abbasids: The High Caliphal Period (750-935)


The Esoteric Movements



Culmination


A New Order (935-1258)


The Crusades


Expansion


The Mongols (1220-1500)



Islam Triumphant


Imperial Islam (1500-1700)


The Safavid Empire


The Moghul Empire


The Ottoman Empire



Islam Agonistes


The Arrival of the West (1750-2000)


What is a Modern Muslim State?


Fundamentalism


Muslims in a Minority


The Way Forward


Key Figures in the History of Islam


Glossary of Arabic Terms


Notes


Suggestions for Further Reading


Index