Islam Paperback by Karen Armstrong

Product Details

• Publisher: Modern Library (2002-08-06)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 272 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780812966183
• Item Weight: 232.47 grams
• Dimensions: 7.95 x 5.2 x 0.6 cm

No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and civil war. In a vital revision of this narrow view of Islam and a distillation of years of thinking and writing about the subject, Karen Armstrong’s short history demonstrates that the world’s fastest-growing faith is a much more complex phenomenon than its modern fundamentalist strain might suggest.

About the Author

Karen Armstrong is one of the world’s foremost scholars on religious affairs. She is the author of a number of bestselling books, including The Battle for God, Buddha, Jerusalem, A History of God, and Through the Narrow Gate, a memoir of her seven years as a nun. She lives in London.