| Islam: A Short History Contributor(s): Armstrong, Karen (Author) |
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ISBN: 081296618X ISBN-13: 9780812966183 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 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. |
| 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" (0.44 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 68635 Reading Level: 12.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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." |