Muslims [electronic resource] : their religious beliefs and practices / By Andrew Rippin.
Rippin, Andrew, 1950-2016.
2011
BP161.2 .R53 2011eb
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Title Muslims [electronic resource] : their religious beliefs and practices / By Andrew Rippin.
Author Rippin, Andrew, 1950-2016.
Edition 4th ed.
ISBN 9780203805213 (electronic bk.)
9780415489393
9780415489409
9781136646522
Imprint Abingdon, Oxon ; N.Y., N.Y. : Routledge, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 356 p.) : ill., maps.
Call Number BP161.2 .R53 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 297
Summary Offers a survey of Islamic history and thought from the formative period of the religion to modern times. It examines the unique elements which have combined to form Islam, in particular the Qur'an and the influence of Muhammad, and traces the ways in which these sources have interacted historically to create Muslim theology and law as well as the alternative visions of Islam found in Shi'ism and Sufism. --from publisher description
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series The library of religious beliefs and practices
Available in Other Form Muslims.
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Pt. 1. Formative elements of classical Islam. Prehistory
The Qurʼān
Muḥammad
pt. 2. Emergence of Islamic identity. Political action and theory
Theological exposition
Legal developments
Ritual practice
pt. 3. Alternate visions of classical Islamic identity. The Shīʻa
Ṣūfī devotion
pt. 4. Consolidation of Islamic identity. Intellectual culture
Medieval visions of Islam
pt. 5. Modern visions of Islam. Describing modernity
Muḥammad and modernity
The Qurʼān and modernity
Issues of identity: ritual and politics
pt. 6. Re-visioning Islam. Women, intellectuals, and other challenges
Perceptions of Muslims in the twenty-first century.

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