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I've read her book on Muhammad snoopcester Send a noteboard - 28/08/2012 10:38:31 PM
The name coming to mind is Karen Armstrong, who has written a number of books on the Abrahamic religions - some books about all three of them, as well as books on each of the separate ones. I read some of them and thought they were interesting (on a science-for-a-larger-audience level, not specialized theology or history of religion) and not too blatantly biased, though I should add that this was easily eight years or more ago, so who knows what I'd think of them now.


And have got her book on the Bible to read.

While I thought the book on Muhammad was very readable, it seemed very sympathetic to me rather than being critical.
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I've read her book on Muhammad - 28/08/2012 10:38:31 PM 951 Views
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He acts as editor on those books. - 30/08/2012 04:04:45 PM 795 Views

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