01513nam a22002297a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100120008308200210009510000280011624500270014426000260017130000360019752008100023365000180104365000270106170000300108894200120111899900190113095201340114920230627163306.0230627b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781842125830  cAL  aEnglish  223a297.09bARMI  aKaren Armstrong9124966  aIslam: A Short History  aLondonbPhoenixc2000  axxxii,192 p.bPBc19.7x12.7 cm.  aOne 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.  aIslam9124967  aIslamic Empire9124968  aARMSTRONG (Karen)9124969  2ddccDB  c227693d227693  00102ddc40708OTHaALbALd2023-06-23l0o297.09 ARMIpD05954r2023-06-27 00:00:00w2023-06-27yDBzDonated by V.T. Rajshekar