Islam
Subtitle: a short history
By: Karen Armstrong.
Edition: Modern Library ed.
Series: Modern Library chronicles
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Islam -- History.; Islamic Empire -- History.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.