Islam : a short history / Karen Armstrong.
Material type: TextSeries: Modern Library chroniclesPublication details: New York : Modern Library, 2002.Edition: Modern Library pbk. edDescription: xxxiv, 230 p. : maps ; 21 cmISBN:- 081296618X
- 297.09 21 Ar57i
- BP50 .A69 2002
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297.082 Sch34m My soul is a woman : the feminine in Islam / | 297.09 Ab76g The great theft : wrestling Islam from the extremists / | 297.09 Ah52p Postmodernism and Islam : predicament and promise / | 297.09 Ar57i Islam : a short history / | 297.09 Ay96ov Over-stating the Arab state : politics and society in the Middle East / | 297.09 B455f The formation of Islam : religion and society in the Near East, 600-1800 / | 297.09 El78m c.1 Muslim women's choices : religious belief and social reality / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beginnings. The prophet (570-632) -- The rashidun (632-661) -- The first fitnah. Development. 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. Culmination. A new order (935-1258) -- The crusades -- Expansion -- The Mongols (1220-1500). Islam triumphant. Imperial Islam (1500-1700) - The Safavid empire -- The Moghul empire -- The Ottoman empire. Islam agonistes. The arrival of the west (1750-2000) -- What is a modern Muslim state? -- Fundamentalism -- Muslims in a minority -- The way forward.
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