By Tamara Sonn

Now on hand in a fully-revised and up-to-date 3rd variation, Islam: heritage, faith and Politics, offers a complete and interesting advent to the middle teachings, old improvement, and modern public struggles of Islam.

  • Features a brand new bankruptcy at the Arab Spring and the continued struggles for consultant governance in the course of the Muslim world
  • Includes updated research of the civil wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, together with the increase of terrorist teams like Boko Haram and ISIS
  • Spans Islamic background from the lifetime of Muhammad and the beginning of Islamic beliefs, via Islam’s exceptional geographical growth and cultural improvement, to the construction of contemporary states and its function in today’s international society
  • Written through a number one pupil of Islamic studies

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