Islam : A short history /
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Language: English
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New York :
Modern Library,
2000.
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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 | ||
