Heavily illustrated, pocket-sized, and filled with useful information, Crash Course books make excellent supplements to main textbooks for students who are taking college-101 humanities courses. They are also informative and entertaining books for the general reader. Each Crash Course volume contains approximately 400 high quality photos and illustrations, most of them in full color. This handsome volume presents a chronological survey of Islam, from its founding by Muhammad in the seventh century, AD, to the present. Emphasized here are the artistic and cultural aspects of Islam, with many color illustrations showing Islamic art and architecture.
