Keywords: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China and Inner Asia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Asia, Southeast Asia, World History
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The need for teachers of survey coursesinhistoryandgeographyto cover the Muslim world has become fraught, since 9/11, with a tension that doesn’t arise when the subject matter is, say, the Buddhist or Hindu world. Trying to be broadminded, non-Muslim Americans may end up presenting a bland version of the history of Islam that robs the subject of much of its dramatic interest. This book will help to correct that error.