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“Whenever people who don’t really read ask me how to get a snapshot of Islam, I point them to Karen Armstrong’s book, because it’s a wonderful entry point and you could knock it out in a couple of weeks by dipping in and out. This is dense history, but she makes it very accessible. And yet it’s comprehensive in so many ways. At the front of the book there is a wonderful timeline, if you don’t read anything else, at least read that to get a sense of what happened and when!” Read more...
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“There are countless books on Islam but Armstrong’s is Islam 101. It is accessible and provocative, and provides plenty of food for thought for the Western reader. Karen Armstrong is unique as a historian of religion. She’s a religious historian—pious herself—and she takes religion very seriously.” Read more...
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