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Islam: A Short History
Contributor(s): Armstrong, Karen (Author)

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ISBN: 081296618X     ISBN-13: 9780812966183
Publisher: Modern Library
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2002
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Annotation: 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.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Islam - History
Dewey: 297.09
LCCN: 2002284120
Series: Modern Library Chronicles
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.19" W x 8.02" L (0.44 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Islamic
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Index, Maps, Price on Product
Review Citations: New York Times 08/18/2002 pg. 20
Entertainment Weekly 08/23/2002 pg. 137
New York Review of Books 06/12/2003 pg. 27
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 68635
Reading Level: 12.0   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 12.0
 
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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."
 
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