Description
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. It examines the unique elements which have combined to form Islam, in particular, the Qurʾān and perceptions of the Prophet Muḥammad, and traces the ways in which these ideas have interacted to influence Islam’s path to the present. 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.
With detailed illustrations and a new companion website, Muslims is the ideal introduction for students who wish to explore the key issues of Muslims, from the Qurʾān to Islamic feminism, to issues of identity, Islamophobia, and modern visions of Islam.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface to the fifth edition
Introduction
Part I: Formative elements of classical Islam
1 Prehistory
2 The Qurān
3 Muḥammad
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 Shī a
9 Ṣūfī 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 Muḥammad and modernity
14 The Qurān 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 Qurʾān citations
