Dr. Karen Armstrong is a British author, interested in comparing religions and Islam. She has written many books on religious issues, including: The History of God, The Battle of God, Holy War, Islam: A Brief History, The Great Transformation, and others. She will soon publish another book in English under the title: Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence. I also wrote two stories: Through the Narrow Gate, and the Spiral Staircase. Her works have been translated into more than fifty languages.
Dr. Karen addressed members of the US Congress on three occasions, lectured policy makers in the US State Department and the Ministry of Defense, participated in the World Economic Forum, is the ambassador of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, and gives many lectures in Muslim countries, especially in Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey and Indonesia.
In 2007, the Egyptian government awarded her a medal in appreciation of her efforts in serving Islam, under the auspices of Al-Azhar, and she is the first foreigner to receive this medal. She won the Four Freedoms Medal for Freedom of Worship from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, and the Dr. Leopold Lukas Award at the University of Tübingen in 2009. In 2013, she was the first to receive the Nayef Al-Roudhan Award from the British Academy in recognition of her efforts in developing relations between cultures of the world. The Gandhi/King/Ikeda Award for Community Builders in Atlanta Commemoration in 2014. She is Curator of the British Museum and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Letters.
In February 2008, she received a TED Prize for her vision of the Charter for Compassion (www.charterforcompassion.org) prepared by a group of distinguished thinkers from across the six world faiths as a collaborative effort to restore compassionate thinking and compassion to the moral and political life. The Charter of Compassion is being implemented creatively and realistically in a number of countries, cities, schools and religious communities around the world.
Tanrı Adına Savaş: Yahudilik, Hıristiyanlık ve islam'da Köktendincilik pdf by Karen Armstrong
Bu olağanüstü kitabın önemi geniş kapsamlı görüşleri kadar ayrıntılarında yatmakta… Köktendincilik zorla kontrol altına alınamaz. Eğer yenilgiye uğratılmak isteniyorsa öncelikle anlaşılmak zorunda.
–Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph
Köktendinciliğin hayaleti dünyamıza musallat olmuş durumda ve çoğumuz sadece dehşete kapılmakla kalmadık, bundan şaşkınlığa da uğradık… Hasta rehberine ihtiyacımız var. Karen Armstrong işte bu rehber.
–A.N. Wilson, Daily Mail
Armstrong bütün alışıldık yeteneklerini sergiliyor: Onun gözüyle on dokuzuncu yüzyıl sonu ve yirminci yüzyılla ilgili her satır değerli ve her hikâye ilgi çekici.
–Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Literary Review
Olağanüstü bir kitap. Din ve politikayla çok az ilgisi olan bir okurun bile mutlaka alması gereken bir kitap.
–Tom Morton, Scotland on Sunday
Karen Armstrong’un kitabı köktendinciliği korkutucu öğlerinden arındırılmış olarak görmemize, böylece de onu ciddiye almamıza ve onunla baş etmeye yönelik stratejiler geliştirmemize imkân sağlıyor. İnsancıl ve anlayışlı.