Islam : a short history / Karen Armstrong.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Modern Library chroniclesPublication details: New York : Modern Library, 2002.Edition: Modern Library pbk. edDescription: xxxiv, 230 p. : maps ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 081296618X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297.09 21 Ar57i
LOC classification:
  • BP50 .A69 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
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.

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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