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islam: a short history
[Paperback - 2002]
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Category: History
Sub-category: Islamic History
Additional Category: Islam
Publisher: Modern Library Classics Usa | ISBN: 9780812966183 | Pages: 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.

Karen Armstrong is one of the world s leading commentators on religious affairs. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun but left her teaching order in 1969 to read English at St Anne s College, Oxford. In 1982, she became a full-time writer and broadcaster. She is the author of sixteen books and has been awarded with honours and prizes across the globe, including the British Academy s inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for improving transcultural understanding in 2013.

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