Islam : a short history
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Published
New York : Modern Library, 2000.
Edition
Modern Library ed.
ISBN
0679640401 (alk. paper), 9780679640400 (alk. paper)
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 222 pages : maps ; 19 cm.
Status
Kilton Public Library - Nonfiction
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Published
New York : Modern Library, 2000.
Format
Book
Edition
Modern Library ed.
Language
English
ISBN
0679640401 (alk. paper), 9780679640400 (alk. paper)
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-211) and index.
Description
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular Western imagination as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government, female oppression, civil war, and terrorism. The author's short history offers a vital corrective to this narrow view. The distillation of years of thinking and writing about Islam, it demonstrates that the world's fastest-growing faith is a much richer and more complex phenomenon than its modern fundamentalist strain might suggest. This book begins with the flight of Muhammad and his family from Medina in the seventh century and the subsequent founding of the first mosques. It recounts the origins of the split between Shii and Sunni Muslims, and the emergence of Sufi mysticism; the spread of Islam throughout North Africa, the Levant, and Asia; the shattering effect on the Muslim world of the Crusades; the flowering of imperial Islam in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries into the world's greatest and most sophisticated power; and the origins and impact of revolutionary Islam. It concludes with an assessment of Islam today and its challenges.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Armstrong, K. (2000). Islam: a short history (Modern Library ed.). Modern Library.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Armstrong, Karen, 1944-. 2000. Islam: A Short History. Modern Library.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Armstrong, Karen, 1944-. Islam: A Short History Modern Library, 2000.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Armstrong, Karen. Islam: A Short History Modern Library ed., Modern Library, 2000.
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