Islam
Douban
ISBN: 9780812966183
author:
Karen Armstrong
publishing house: Modern Library
publication date: 2002
-8
series: Modern Library Chronicles
binding: Paperback
price: USD 15.95
number of pages: 272
A Short History
Karen Armstrong
overview
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.