Islam :

Islam : a short guide to the faith / edited by Roger Allen & Shawkat M. Toorawa. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2011. - xviii, 177 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-166) and index.

Contents: Islam / Shawkat M. Toorawa --
Qur'an / Roger Allen --
Muhammad / Tahera Qutbuddin --
Hadith and Sunna / Scott C. Lucas --
Shariʻa / Aron Zysow --
Islamic philosophy / Jon McGinnis --
Sufism / Ahmet T. Karamustafa --
Shiʻites, Shiʻism / Abdulaziz Sachedina --
Sunnis, Sunnism / Scott C. Lucas --
Mosque / Ruba Kana'an --
Islamic government / Joseph E. Lowry --
Women and Islam / Homayra Ziad --
Islam and Judaism / Mark S. Wagner --
Islam and Christianity / Paul Löffler and Mark N. Swanson --
Islam in America / Jane I. Smith.

Summary:
In Islam: A Short Guide to the Faith, editors Roger Allen and Shawkat M. Toorawa have assembled fifteen chapters by fifteen noted scholars, each of which provides a lucid description and exploration of an aspect of Islam, its institutions, doctrines, and interactions, notably with Christianity, Judaism, and the modern world.

9780802866004 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2010044115


Islam--Essence, genius, nature.
Islam--Doctrines.
Islam--21st century.

BP 165 / .I74 2011

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