Titre :	Islam : a short history
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Armstrong, Karen, Auteur
Editeur :	New York : The Modern Library
Année de publication :	c2000
Importance :	XXXIV, 230 p.
Présentation :	maps
Format :	21 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-8129-6618-3
Note générale :	Includes Index.
Langues :	Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	Islam -- History Islam. Islamic Empire--History
Index. décimale :	BP 50
Résumé :	No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular Western imagination as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government, female oppression, civil war, and terrorism. The author's short history offers a vital corrective to this narrow view. The distillation of years of thinking and writing about Islam, it demonstrates that the world's fastest-growing faith is a Lire la suite...
Note de contenu :	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.

Islam : a short history [texte imprimé] / Armstrong, Karen, Auteur . - New York : The Modern Library, c2000 . - XXXIV, 230 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-8129-6618-3
Includes Index.
Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	Islam -- History Islam. Islamic Empire--History
Index. décimale :	BP 50
Résumé :	No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular Western imagination as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government, female oppression, civil war, and terrorism. The author's short history offers a vital corrective to this narrow view. The distillation of years of thinking and writing about Islam, it demonstrates that the world's fastest-growing faith is a Lire la suite...
Note de contenu :	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.