Teresa Bernheimer, Andrew Rippin (Canada University of Victoria)

Muslims

Their Religious Beliefs and Practices

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices offers a survey of Islamic history and thought from the formative period of the religion to the contemporary period. Combining core source materials with coverage of current scholarship and of recent events in the Islamic world, Bernheimer and Rippin introduce this hugely significant religion, including alternative visions of Islam found in Shi'ism and Sufism, in a succinct, challenging and refreshing way. The improved and expanded fifth edition is updated throughout and includes new textboxes.

Produktdetails

• The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 5 ed
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781138219687
• ISBN-10: 1138219681
• Artikelnr.: 53115267

Autorenporträt

Teresa Bernheimer is currently Gerda Henkel Fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, working on religious extremism in the early Islamic period. Andrew Rippin was Professor of History and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, Canada, and among the foremost scholars of the Qur¿¿n.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface to the fifth edition Introduction Part I: Formative elements of classical Islam 1 Prehistory 2 The Qur
n 3 Müammad Part II: Emergence of Islamic identity 4 Political action and theory 5 Theological exposition 6 Legal developments 7 Ritual practice Part III: Alternative visions of classical Islamic identity 8 The Sh
a 9
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devotion Part IV: Consolidation of Islamic identity 10 Intellectual culture 11 Medieval visions of Islam Part V: Modern visions of Islam 12 Describing modernity 13 Müammad and modernity 14 The Qur
n and modernity 15 Issues of identity: ritual and politics Part VI: Re-visioning Islam 16 Women, intellectuals, and other challenges 17 Perceptions of Muslims in the twenty-first century Glossary References General index Index of Qur
n citations