Islam (UNIVERSAL HISTORY) - Softcover

Armstrong, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842125834 ISBN 13: 9781842125830

Verlag: Orion Group, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

London. 20 cm. xxxii, 192 p. : maps. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Universal history. Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-183) and index. 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 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 9781842125830 (pbk.); 1842125834 (pbk.)

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Reseña del editor:

One of the world's foremost commentators on religious affairs on the history (and destiny) of the world's most misunderstood religion.

In the public mind, Islam is a religion of extremes: it is the world's fastest growing faith; more than three-quarters of the world's refugees are Islamic; it has produced government by authoritarian monarchies in Saudi Arabia and ultra-republicans in Iran. Whether we are reading about civil war in Algeria or Afghanistan, the struggle for the soul of Turkey, or political turmoil in Pakistan or Malaysia, the Islamic context permeates all these situations.

Karen Armstrong's elegant and concise book traces how Islam grew from the other religions of the book, Judaism and Christianity; introduces us to the character of Muhammed; and demonstrates that for much of its history, the religion has been a force for enlightenment that promoted liberties for women and allowed the arts and sciences to flourish.

ISLAM shows how this progressive legacy is today often set aside as the faith struggles to come to terms with the economic and political weakness of most of its believers and with the forces of modernity itself.

Biografía del autor:

Karen Armstrong spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun, an experience she recollected in her two volumes of best-selling autobiography, Through the Narrow Gate and Beginning the World. She is the author of the world-wide best-seller, A History of God (which has now appeared in more than thirty languages), the acclaimed History of Jerusalem and, most recently, The Battle for God. She is a teacher at the Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism and, in 1999, she received the Muslim Public Affairs Council Media Award.

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• Verlag: Orion Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1842125834
• ISBN 13: 9781842125830
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200