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Their chief duty was to create a just community in which all members, even the most weak and vulnerable, were treated with absolute respect. The experience of building such a society and living in it would give them intimations of the divine, because they would be living in accordance with God’s
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Index


Karen Armstrong
History of Islam
Modern Library Chronicles
ISBN
0-8129-6618-X
The Battle for God
Karen Armstrong
Roman Catholic
nun
history of religion
Islam
Crusades
Muslims
Western society
Armstrong, Karen
ISBN
0-8129-6618-X
v
t
e
Karen Armstrong
Through the Narrow Gate
Beginning the World
The First Christian: Saint Paul's Impact on Christianity
Tongues of Fire: An Anthology of Religious and Poetic Experience
The Gospel According to Woman: Christianity's Creation of the Sex War in the West
Holy War: The Crusades and their Impact on Today's World
Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
The English Mystics of the Fourteenth Century

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