Islam A Short History

Name: Islam A Short History
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ISBN: 9780812966183

ISBN-10: 081296618X

ISBN-13: 9780812966183

Edition: 2002

Authors: Karen Armstrong

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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.

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/6/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.96" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.484
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