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020			_a9781842125830
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041			_aEnglish
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100			_aKaren Armstrong _9124966
245			_aIslam: A Short History
260			_aLondon _bPhoenix _c2000
300			_axxxii,192 p. _bPB _c19.7x12.7 cm.
520			_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.
650			_aIslam _9124967
650			_aIslamic Empire _9124968
700			_aARMSTRONG (Karen) _9124969
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