Armstrong, Karen.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 202.11 ARMSummary: Explores the nature of Islam and unfolds many of its inner-dimensions. It dispels many myths and discusses contributions to science and math.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LEGAkyol, Mustafa
Summary: Looks at the Islamic view of Jesus, exploring its origins in the seventh century and how it relates to the views of the Jews and Christians of the day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 AKYSummary: Islam has more than 1.2 billion adherents worldwide. Today, it is imperative that the West understand Islam's role as both a religion and a way of life, what Muslims believe, their practices and history. This set of twelve thirty-minute lectures present an exploration of Islamic law, mysticism, civilization, and Muslim life and society through the ages. Examines the "struggle for the soul of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 GRESummary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 WORCall number: DVD 909 WOR PART 1
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Armstrong, Karen.
Summary: This program shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came into existence and what they yearn to accomplish. Focusing on Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalism, the author examines the ways in which these movements, while not monolithic, have each sprung from a dread of modernity-- and often in response to assault, sometimes unwitting, sometimes intentional, by the mainstream society.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 200.9 ARMSummary: We often think that people from a thousand years ago were living in the Dark Ages. But from the 7th century onward in Muslim civilization there were amazing advances and inventions that still influence our everyday lives. People living in the Muslim world saw what the Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Greek, and Romans had discovered and spent the next one thousand years adding new developments and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297.2 ONESummary: This comprehensive, accessible, and factual guide to Islam is essential to understanding the world's fastest-growing religion. This essential guide to Islam covers every aspect of the Muslim faith and its history - from the life of the Prophet Muhammad and the teachings of the Koran to Islam in the 21st century. Celebrating the scientific, literary, and artistic achievements of the Islamic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 ISLFuller, Graham E.
Summary: This book will reshape the way we think about Islam's relationship with the West. What if Islam never existed? To some, it's a comforting thought: no clash of civilizations, no holy wars, no terrorists. Here, political scientist and expert on the Muslim world Graham E. Fuller guides us through history, geopolitics, and religion to investigate whether or not Islam is indeed the cause of some of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.09 FULSpencer, Robert
Summary: Traces the founder of Islam's rise to political and military power, focusing on controversial aspects of the prophet's beliefs and actions without adhering to political correctness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.63 SPESummary: Documents the rise and growth of Islam throughout the world, from the birth of Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century through the peak of the Ottoman Empire 1000 years later. Discusses the impact of Islamic civilization on world history and culture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ISLHilliam, David.
Summary: Relates how King Richard I of England and his troops nearly wrested Jerusalem from Muslim leader Saladin and the Saracens during the Third Crusade in 1191 A.D.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.18 HILSummary: Documents the rise and growth of Islam throughout the world, from the birth of Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century through the peak of the Ottoman Empire 1000 years later. Discusses the impact of Islamic civilization on world history and culture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 297.09 ISLRogerson, Barnaby.
Summary: The Crusades were the bridge between medieval and modern history, between feudalism and colonialism. In many ways, the little explored later Crusades were the most significant of them all, for they made the crisis truly global. "The Last Crusaders" is about the period's last great conflict between East and West, and the titanic contest between Habsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.015 ROGRadley, Gail
Summary: "Understanding Islam covers the history of Islam and explores how the religion has evolved and expanded. Readers learn about worship practices, women's roles, and the world contributions Muslims have made. This title also discusses the discrimination Muslims have faced in the West, and explores controversies surrounding terrorism"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297 RADJebara, Mohamad
Summary: Based on extensive scholarship, an innovative biography of the central text of Islam Over a billion copies of the Qur`an exist, yet it remains an enigma. Its classical Arabic language resists simple translation, and its non-linear style of abstract musings defies categorization. Moreover, those who champion its sanctity and compete to claim its mantle offer widely diverging interpretations of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2024
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Summary: Discover the faith, culture, and history that have shaped the modern Islamic world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 297 WILMarozzi, Justin
Summary: A history of the rich and diverse civilizations over fifteen centuries of Islam seen through its greatest cities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 MARKennedy, Hugh (Hugh N.)
Summary: Examines the history of the great Islamic expansion, reveals how the Arab armies were able to overcome almost everything in their path, and brings to light the unique characteristics of Islamic settlement in new lands and the conversion to Islam of vast populations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.09 KENArmstrong, Karen
Summary: No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular Western imagination as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government, female oppression, civil war, and terrorism. The author's short history offers a vital corrective to this narrow view. The distillation of years of thinking and writing about Islam, it demonstrates that the world's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.09 ARMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Rel ArmstrongLunde, Paul
Contents: Islam in context -- The Islamic faith -- History of the Islamic world -- Islamic art and science -- Modernity and tradition -- The Islamic world today -- Chronology.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LUNLewis, Bernard.
Summary: This collection of essays, written by the foremost Western expert in Islamic studies, gives essential background on present Middle Eastern conflicts with the West, and how this religion, from its first expansion to the exploits of Saddam Hussein, has been fatefully involved with the Western world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Court 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 LEWAslan, Reza.
Summary: Presents the origins and history of Islam, with emphasis on its relation to other religions and the impact that terrorism is having on the current perception of Islam throughout the non-Islamic world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005