- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: BBC Books (16 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0563534524
- ISBN-13: 978-0563534525
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 16 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 672,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It's sometimes difficult for Westerners not to write off Islam as a fanatical religion for war-like fundamentalists in turbans. In Islam: Empire of Faith, Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair have written an excellent resource which knocks such media-conditioned prejudice on the head. As professors of Islamic and Asian art at Boston College, they are well placed to unlock the complex history and culture of Islam for Western readers. This book and the BBC documentary series it ties in with should work well to break down our bigotry by providing a fascinating and enlightening introduction to Islamic culture. The authors avoid the complex modern history of the Muslim world and focus on the origin and rise of Islam in the seventh and eighth centuries before dwelling on Islam's golden age between 750 and 1250. The third part of the book covers the age of empires from 1250 to the dawning of the 18th century.
Islam: Empire of Faith covers the politics, wars and in-fighting which have been part of Islam from the beginning, but the authors' real passion is Islamic culture. The sections describing the flowering of Islamic art, learning, and literature are the strongest sections. Despite the wide cultural divide between modern day Islam and the West, the writers succeed in showing how much we owe to the high culture of Islam at its peak. With 30 pages of illustrations, maps and a complete index, this book is an attractive and necessary introduction to a culture and religion which will continue to challenge the Western world. --Dwight Longenecker
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"A timely study and important background to understanding the faith of more than one-fifth of the world's population today." John L. Espositio, University Professor, Georgetown University and author of Islam: The Straight Path and editor of The Oxford History of Islam
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Format:Hardcover
This is a very good book that was published a month before the atrocity in New York in 2001. Since then Islam has been used in propaganda and distortion both for American interests and Middle Eastern politics. The book teaches us in a well organised easy to read layout and format with good pictures about the historical origins of Islam, the enlightened figure Muhammed was and how Islam spread and advanced in to a civilisation " the Islamic world" very different to the image we have of it today. Its contribution to human development and History and the new empires after the classical period under the various Mongol dynasties where the present Islamic legacy stems. The Ottoman legacy could of been written better as well as the present situation in the Islamic world which is only briefly summed up. These are the only draw back as it fails to explain the current situation and problems in the Islamic world which would of been a good ending and one to think about especially what would happen a month later after its publication. However anyone wanting to understand Islamic history and culture this is a good book and highly recommended
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its a prescribed reading text for the course i am on.
its a good read, its intresting written well and not at all dull.
the chapters are clear and the points concise enough to give you an overview as to what you going to be talking about.
if your intrested in the origins, or just want a reccomended read than buy this book
its a good read, its intresting written well and not at all dull.
the chapters are clear and the points concise enough to give you an overview as to what you going to be talking about.
if your intrested in the origins, or just want a reccomended read than buy this book
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If your interested in finding more out about the instigators of September 11, and the religion which rocks the world with its terrorist atrocities then this book is for you. Jonatham Bloom and Sheila Blair write in an objective style about the origins of Islam. It is enlightening, and if you prefer a more easier mode of information output then you can watch the BBC DVD, also available from Amazon.
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