From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: The notion of an enlightenment that was impersonal, beyond human categories and natural to humanity was also close to the Hindu and Buddhist ideal in India … Thus despite the more superficial differences, there were profound similarities between the monotheistic and […]

From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Today it is common in the West to depict Islam as an inherently misogynistic religion, but, like Christianity, the religion of al-Lah was originally positive for women. During the [pre-Islamic period] … the majority were on par with slaves; they […]