Islam: A Brief History
AMDG BVMH
1-27-07 World Religions David Brennan
Karen Armstrong’s 202 page book, Islam: a Short History covers the religion Islam and what the teachings have to offer. The author herself has written books on Christianity and Buddhism as well. She is a former nun who now lives a self-proclaimed ‘solitary life’. She suffers through the disease epilepsy and wrote about her trial in the 2004 book The Spiral Staircase. She believes that by writing on the Islamic religion that readers will come away with a better understanding of its meaning.
The story of Islam begins with a rich, young Arabic man named Muhammad ibn Abdallah, or simply The Prophet as he is better known amongst Muslims. While retiring to a cave on the summit of Mount Hira, he heard a voice call out to him on the night of 17 Ramadan. This voice poured the scripture into his mind and out of his tongue. Muhammad did not want to discredit Judaism or Christianity or even to start a new religion. He message was......
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