Islam A Short History |
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| Author:
| Armstrong, Karen |
| Series title: | Modern Library Chronicles Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8129-6618-3 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2002 |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Modern Library |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionNo 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.