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ISBN 10: 0679640401
ISBN 13: 978-0679640400
Author: Karen Armstrong
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. Karen Armstrong’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.
Islam: A Short History 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.
With this brilliant book, Karen Armstrong issues a forceful challenge to those who hold the view that the West and Islam are civilizations set on a collision course. It is also a model of authority, elegance, and economy.
Islam A Short History User 1st Table of contents:
CHAPTER 1
THE PROPHET (570-632)
THE RASHIDUN (632-661)
THE FIRST FITNAH
CHAPTER 2
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
CHAPTER 3
A NEW ORDER (935-1258)
THE CRUSADES
EXPANSION
THE MONGOLS (1220-1500)
CHAPTER 4
IMPERIAL ISLAM (1500-1700)
THE SAFAVID EMPIRE
THE MOGHUL EMPIRE
THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
CHAPTER 5
THE ARRIVAL OF THE WEST (1750-2000)
WHAT IS A MODERN MUSLIM STATE?
FUNDAMENTALISM
MUSLIMS IN A MINORITY
THE WAY FORWARD
EPILOGUE
GLOSSARY OF ARABIC TERMS
KEY FIGURES IN THE HISTORY OF ISLAM
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
THE MODERN LIBRARY EDITORIAL BOARD
TEACHER’S GUIDE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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