Book · by Karen Armstrong · first published 2000
How many pages is Islam?
Islam by Karen Armstrong has a median of 222 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 190 to 251 pages.
How long will Islam take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 246 | 2 | 4 h 45 min |
| Paperback | 232 | 2 | 4 h 28 min |
Editions counted
The 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 13 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Modern Library | Paperback | 272 | OL8020751M |
| 2002 | Modern Library | – | 230 | OL3585642M |
| 2002 | Thorndike Press | Hardcover | 349 | OL8136716M |
| 2001 | Phoenix Press | Paperback | 192 | OL24650390M |
| 2000 | Modern Library | Hardcover | 144 | OL7699674M |
| 2000 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | – | 189 | OL22334383M |
| 2000 | Modern Library | – | 222 | OL6780007M |
More by Karen Armstrong
All 3 books by Karen Armstrong with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Islam?
- About 222 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 144 to 349 pages.
- How long does it take to read Islam?
- About 4 h 17 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
- How many words is Islam?
- Roughly 61,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.
Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).