Islam A Short History 1st Edition by Karen Armstrong 081296618X 9780812966183

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ISBN 10: 081296618X

ISBN 13: 9780812966183

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 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

ALSO BY KAREN ARMSTRONG

COPYRIGHT PAGE

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