01369nam a22002177a 4500 20230627163306.0 230627b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781842125830 AL English 23 297.09 ARMI Karen Armstrong 124966 Islam: A Short History London Phoenix 2000 xxxii,192 p. PB 19.7x12.7 cm. 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. 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. Islam 124967 Islamic Empire 124968 ARMSTRONG (Karen) 124969 ddc DB 227693 227693 0 0 ddc 0 0 OTH AL AL 2023-06-23 0 297.09 ARMI D05954 2023-06-27 00:00:00 2023-06-27 DB Donated by V.T. Rajshekar