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Islam : a short guide to the faith / edited by Roger Allen & Shawkat M. Toorawa.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2011.Description: xviii, 177 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780802866004 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297 22
LOC classification:
  • BP 165 .I74 2011
Contents:
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: Summary: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.
Item type: Books
Holdings
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Judith Thomas Library General Stacks BKS BP 165 .I74 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA013505 1 Available AUA013505
Judith Thomas Library General Stacks BKS BP 165 .I74 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA013506 2 Available AUA013506

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.