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Islam and the Prophet Muhammad 6
The Battle for Leadership and the Sunni-Shia Rift 15
The Abbasid Dynasty 24
The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires 32
Islam in the Modern World 40
Chronology 58
Glossary 60
Further Reading 62
Internet Resources 62
Index 63
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Jerry Janysek
reviewed The History of Islam (World of Islam) on August 28, 2010
The History of Islam
Honestly, why do I keep picking up Karen Armstrong's books?
It's not that she is a bad writer, just an exceptionally boring one. When I listen to 'Islam: A Short History' I feel like I'm being hit by a verbal machine gun fire of names, dates and places. Unfortunately few of these fact 'bullets' remain in my brain.
She starts off innocently enough, giving an account Muhammad's life and then ....'BANG, BANG BANG!' she hits you with a blitzkrieg of boring, impersonal facts.
About three quarters of the way through the book Armstrong picks you up, dusts you off, and tries to console you with a bit of modern history on Islamic fundamentalism. But it's too late. I'm already suffering from academic PTSD.
Yet I sense that I'll still read her next book, 'A Short History of Myth'...
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