Islam: A Short History -- Karen Armstrong, Paperback

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."

Author: Karen Armstrong
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 08/06/2002
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.19w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780812966183

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 12
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 68635 / Islam: A Short History (Revised)


Review Citation(s):
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

About the Author
Karen Armstrong is one of the world's foremost scholars on religious affairs. She is the author of a number of bestselling books, including The Battle for God, Buddha, Jerusalem, A History of God, and Through the Narrow Gate, a memoir of her seven years as a nun. She lives in London.