Islam : A Short History
Islam. 101 too after the Mongol invasions, when people clearly felt that the world as they had known it was coming to an end, bu ...
102. Karen Armstrong the Sufi lifestyle which can make everyone an indomitable hero of a battle waged perpetually in the cosmos ...
Islam • 103 could unite Muslims throughout the world, and stamped down on heterodox ideas that would cause dissension and tempt ...
104. Karen Armstrong tine Islam of the Quran and sunnah, the reformers were often iconoclastic in sweeping away later medieval d ...
Islam. 105 derstood it. Ibn Taymiyyah was imprisoned, and was said to have died of sorrow, since his gaolers would not permit hi ...
106. Karen Armstrong were right, to subjugate others. This conquest meant that the dominant group could absorb the resources of ...
Islam • 101 clining Chaghaytay Empire, claimed Mongol descent, and began to reconquer the old Mongol territory with the sav- age ...
108. Karen Armstrong thirteenth century, and by the early fourteenth century Islam was soundly established in the Ganges basin a ...
Islam • 109 that had inspired the very early Shiis, revering Ali as an in- carnation of the divine, believing that their dead am ...
110. Karen Armstrong feated the Serbian army at Kosovo Field in central Serbia. Murad was killed, but the Serbian Prince Hrelbel ...
Islam. 11 1 rule discovered that the Muslims controlled the high seas, and that when they left their own lands they had to confr ...
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IMPERIAL ISLAM (1500.1700) The discovery and exploitation of gunpowder led to the de- velopment of a military technology that ga ...
116. Karen Armstrong Abbasid state in one important respect. The Abbasid caliphs and their court had never been truly Islamic in ...
Islam • 117 1492 and opened new sea routes around the globe had given Portuguese merchants added mobility. In the second half of ...
11 8. Karen Armstrong gious establishment a new coercive power. During the last two hundred years there had been a detente betwe ...
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120. Karen Armstrong Ottomans, and his capital at Isfahan enjoyed a cultural renaissance, which, like the recent Italian renaiss ...
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