Islam : A short history /

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Main Author: Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: New York : Modern Library, 2000.

Series: Modern Library chronicles.

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Call Number: BP50 .A69 2000

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100 1 |a Armstrong, Karen,   |d 1944-   |e author 
245 1 0 |a Islam :   |b A short history /   |c Karen Armstrong. 
264 1 |a New York :   |b Modern Library,   |c 2000. 
300 |a xxxiv, 222 pages :   |b maps ;   |c 20 cm.  |e   
490 0 |a Modern Library chronicles. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-211) and Index. 
505 |a 1. Beginnings -- The Prophet (570-632) -- The Rashidun (632-661) -- The First Fitnah -- 2. 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 -- 3. Culmination -- A New Order (935-1258) -- The Crusades -- Expansion -- The Mongols (1220-1500) -- 4. Islam Triumphant -- Imperial Islam (1500-1700) -- The Safavid Empire -- The Moghul Empire -- The Ottoman Empire -- 5. Islam Agonistes -- The Arrival of the West (1750-2000) -- What is a Modern Muslim State? -- Fundamentalism -- Muslims in a Minority -- The Way Forward -- Key Figures in the History of Islam -- Glossary of Arabic Terms. 
650 0 |a Islam   |x History. 
651 0 |a Islamic Empire   |x History. 
901 |a reviewed 
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999 |c 41289  |d 41289