The first ever book I’ve read by John Freely and enjoyed a lot while reading it. Although I faced a lot of trouble while reading this book (Took me a month and a half to read it), but that’s on my part and due to my lack of knowledge of…

In a word ‘Marvelous’. A job indeed done very well by Tamim Ansary. It’s just wonderful to see how the writer has covered almost 1450 years of history in just around 350 pages! Personally, I was not able to engage myself with the book till the 5th chapter, while reading the…

Author: Karen Armstrong The book totally does justice to its title and objective. The Islamic History mentioned in this book is really very short. Obviously a span of around 1450 years can not be covered in around 160 pages still I would say that she has made a impressive effort…