Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong

Islam: A Short History by Karen ArmstrongIn the public mind, Islam is a religion of extremes: it is the worldAEs fastest growing faith; more than three quarters of the worldAEs refugees are Islamic; it has produced government by authoritarian monarchies in Saudi Arabia and ultra republicans in Iran. Whether we are reading about civil war in Algeria or Afghanistan, the struggle for the soul of Turkey, or political turmoil in Pakistan or Malaysia, the Islamic context permeates all these

After a bizarre encounter with his lost cousin Julian Mantle—a former high-powered courtroom lawyer who suddenly vanished into the Himalayas—Jonathan is compelled to travel across the planet to collect the life-saving letters that carry the extraordinary secrets that Julian discovered

and destroying

As McCrum dug deeper

When it comes to death

Anna learns to read

they are not inherently evil

Michael Palin takes us on a journey - with spectacular photographs from Basil Pao - along the full length of the Himalaya

The real secret of the Shaolin monks’ success isn’t their physical strength: it’s their way of thinking that makes them invincible

And will she be ready for romance by the time the cherry blossom flowers

Is it possible to be alone and not lonely

The story is of survival in the light of the mental and physical cruelty of her stepmother and the disloyalty of her siblings

Itisha Giri's poetry is inscribed with its own stamp