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Title: Bland Islamic history
Review: Viewed from 2009, this book published in 1958 is stale-dated; definitely passed its prime. The author wrote the book as a generic `background' book regarding Islam; it has no citations, no footnotes nor endnotes, with barely a bibliography. Although it frequently quoted from the Koran, no ayat citations were provided. If you are even casually familiar with Islam, you will learn nothing new within this book. The author opined that Islam would eventually somehow reform itself and allow Muslims to awake from the intellectual stupor that Islam has been encapsulated in since the 1500s. The author opined that eventually Islam would arose itself out of its lethargy and join in the `One World' enthusiasm that was so prevalent amongst the 'intelligencia' during the 1950s. After reading the book, I junked it.
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