Islam
The Religious and Political Life of a World Community
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 1984
338 pages
978-0-313-04712-1 (ISBN)
Description
Written in straight-forward language by leading Islamic scholars, 14 essays cover the basics of Islamic faith and practice, the foundations of state and society, the early Muslim empires, Islamic universalism in the later Middle Ages, and the later Muslim empires.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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978-0-313-04712-1 (9780313047121)
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Content
- Cover
- ISLAM
- Preface
- Contents
- 1 Faith and Practice
- REVELATION IN ISLAM
- PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY AND THE FIRST PILLAR OF ISLAM
- ISLAMIC PRAXIS AND THE FOUR REMAINING PILLARS OF ISLAM
- Prayer
- Almsgiving
- Ramadan
- Hajj, the Pilgrimage to Mecca
- DIVERSITY IN THE UMMA: SHI'ISM
- SUFISM
- DEVOTIONAL PIETY
- SOCIAL DUALISM
- 2 The Message and the Messenger
- MUHAMMAD, THE PROPHET OF GOD
- HISTORICAL PERCEPTIONS OF THE PROPHET
- THE MESSAGE
- THE QUR'ANIC TEXT
- INTERPRETING THE QUR'AN
- 3 The Foundations of State and Society
- QUR'AN AND SUNNA
- THE FAMILY OF MUHAMMAD AND SHI'ISM
- SUNNISM AND THE FIRST CALIPHS
- CONSENSUS
- A LIMITED PLURALISM
- 4 The Early Muslim Empires: Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids
- CONQUEST, CONVERSION, ASSIMILATION
- JERUSALEM
- THE FIRST MUSLIM DYNASTY: THE UMAYYADS OF DAMASCUS
- THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF ABBASID BAGHDAD
- THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
- CITIES, WEALTH, TRADE
- ISLAM AND EUROPE
- THE COMING OF THE CRUSADERS
- HOLY CITY, HOLY WAR
- THE SUNNI REVIVAL
- THE ISLAMIC CITY
- ISLAMIC SOCIETY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
- THE RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENTSIA
- 5 Islamic Universalism in the Later Middle Ages
- A FOURTEENTH-CENTURY COSMOPOLITE
- AN AGE OF TURKISH POWER
- THE MONGOL IRRUPTION
- THE CITY NETWORK
- THE CONTINUITY OF ISLAMIC EXPANSION
- 6 The Later Muslim Empires Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals
- BEGINNINGS OF MODERN HISTORY
- TURKO-MONGOL DOMINATION OF MUSLIM LANDS
- THE RISE OF THE MUSLIM EMPIRES
- OTTOMAN CONQUESTS
- THE SAFAVID SYNTHESIS
- THE MUGHAL GRANDEUR
- MUSLIM IMPERIAL POWER: LAW AND THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD
- PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION: REVENUE GRANTS
- INTERNAL STRESS AND EXTERNAL CHALLENGES
- 7 The Colonial Period
- EARLY EUROPEAN COLONIALISM
- NINETEENTH-CENTURY COLONIALISM
- EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY COLONIALISM
- COLONIALISM AFTER WORLD WAR I
- MOTIVES FOR COLONIALISM
- EUROPEAN COLONIZATION
- EFFECTS OF COLONIALISM
- MUSLIM ATTITUDES TOWARD COLONIALISM
- Predominantly Muslim States
- 8 Muslim Responses to Colonialism
- THE REVIVALIST RESPONSE
- THE INTELLECTUAL RESPONSE
- 9 Muslim Nation-States
- THE POLITICAL NATURE OF THE UMMA
- THE AGE OF REFORM
- THE LIBERAL EXPERIMENT
- THE GROWTH OF NATIONALISM
- NASIRISM: NONALIGNMENT, ARAB UNITY, AND ARAB SOCIALISM
- BA'THIST SOCIALISM
- THE QUEST FOR LEGITIMACY
- Socioeconomic Indices
- 10 Muslim Societies Today
- TURKEY
- SAUDI ARABIA
- LIBYA
- PAKISTAN
- EGYPT
- IRAN
- THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY
- 11 Islamic Law
- THE NATURE OF ISLAMIC LAW
- SOURCES OF ISLAMIC LAW
- Qur'an
- Sunna
- Qiyas
- Ijma
- Other Legal Sources
- SUNNI AND SHI'I LAW SCHOOLS
- TRADITIONAL COURTS AND LEGAL FUNCTIONARIES
- STATE LEGISLATION
- ISLAMIC LAW AS IDEOLOGY
- EXPERIMENTS WITH THE REVIVAL OF QUR'ANIC LAWS
- 12 The Changing Arab Muslim Family
- MALE-FEMALE STATUS
- Marriage
- Divorce
- Child Custody
- Inheritance
- WOMEN'S ROLES AS WIVES AND MOTHERS
- WOMEN'S ECONOMIC ROLE
- WOMEN'S POLITICAL ROLE
- WOMEN'S CHANGING ROLE IN THE FAMILY UNIT
- 13 Muslims in the United States
- THE COMING OF MUSLIMS TO THE UNITED STATES
- THE PRACTICE OF ISLAM IN AMERICA
- PROBLEMS OF IMMIGRANT MUSLIMS
- ISLAM IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY
- THE NATION OF ISLAM
- THE NATION AFTER ELIJAH
- ALTERNATIVES TO THE LEADERSHIP OF WARITH BEEN MUHAMMAD
- FOREIGN MUSLIM STUDENTS
- OTHER ISLAMIC ORGANIZATIONS
- 14 Present Tendencies, Future Trends
- CONTEMPORARY FORCES AND ELEMENTS
- Modernism
- Messianism
- "Fundamentalism"
- ISLAM AND IDEOLOGY
- TRADITIONAL ISLAM
- THE ISLAMIZATION OF EDUCATION AND THE SCIENCES
- THE QUEST FOR ISLAMIC UNITY
- THE VITALITY OF ISLAM
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- GENERAL REFERENCE WORKS
- PERIODICALS
- CHAPTER 1: FAITH AND PRACTICE
- CHAPTER 2: THE MESSAGE AND THE MESSENGER
- CHAPTER 3: THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATE AND SOCIETY
- CHAPTER 4: THE EARLY MUSLIM EMPIRES
- CHAPTER 5: ISLAMIC UNIVERSALISM IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES
- CHAPTER 6: THE LATER MUSLIM EMPIRES
- CHAPTER 7: THE COLONIAL PERIOD
- CHAPTER 8: MUSLIM RESPONSES TO COLONIALISM
- CHAPTER 9: MUSLIM NATION-STATES
- CHAPTER 10: MUSLIM SOCIETIES TODAY
- CHAPTER 11: ISLAMIC LAW
- CHAPTER 12: THE CHANGING ARAB MUSLIM FAMILY
- CHAPTER 13: MUSLIMS IN THE UNITED STATES
- CHAPTER 14: PRESENT TENDENCIES, FUTURE TRENDS
- OUTREACH CENTERS
- TEACHING AIDS
- ISLAMIC CENTERS IN THE UNITED STATES
- DISTRIBUTORS OF ISLAMIC MATERIALS AND THIRD WORLD LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
- Index
- About the Editor and Contributors
