Islam
A Short History

Armstrong tends to view all of history through the prism of the specific conflicts of our day -- to be accurate: from a vantage point situated near the Arab-Israeli Conflict. That is helpful, but also distorting, occasionally. Not a good book to learn about Islamic history, but useful as a correctiv......more

the book is written by an author who has complete grip on the subject. although she is not a muslim but she expressed herself in an absolute superb way and brought the correct perspective of islam. although in west the religion of islam is misunderstood as the religion of killings or it is being spr......more

A few years ago I took an undergrad course on the Ottoman Empire. There was a great deal of reading on the history of Islam so I was exposed to the material before reading this book. Karen Armstrong has done a perfect job of telling the history of the religion and it's prophet without creating a huge......more

یه تاریخچه (تایم لاین) چندین صفحه ای اول کتاب بود که بسیار عالی بود. نمی‌دونستم ترتیب اتفاقات تاریخچه با این جزییات این مدلیه و خیلی از اتفاقاتی که نوشته بود رو راجع بهش نمی‌دونستم. آنقدر راجع به یه سری وقایع محدود هی با جزییات درست و غلط و داستان سرایی شده میخونیم خیلی از اتفاقات مهم تاریخیشون دیگه ج......more