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Islam : a short history / Karen Armstrong.
By: Armstrong, Karen [author.]
.Publisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001Description: xxxii, 192 pages : maps.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1842125834; 9781842125830.Subject(s): Islam -- HistoryDDC classification: 297.09
Contents:
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 Trimphant: 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; Postscript.
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 297.09 ARM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 014695 |
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| 297 LEA Leaving faith behind : | 297 RUT Islam : a very short introduction / | 297 ZEE Choosing Sharia? : multiculturalism, Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia councils / | 297.09 ARM Islam : | 297.09 HUS The house of Islam : | 297.09 OXF The Oxford history of Islam / | 297.09 SIL Islamic history : a very short introduction / |
Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.
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 Trimphant: 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; Postscript.