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	• Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles) Karen Armstrong Modern Library, 2002 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 139 reviews view larger image
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Excellent beginning and excellent ending, but the middle was quite dense and difficult to follow. I expected a short history to be more general, accessible, easy to read and obtain a broad picture of the religion. Instead, this short history seems to pack the data of a 700 page book into 160 pages. I would have liked more general commentary about development and branches of Islam rather than the dates and accomplishments of ever caliph in the middle ages. Still, I have a much better understanding of what Islam is, how it developed, why it is what it is today. I would recommend it to anyone will to devote the time to it.

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