Muslims

by Rippin, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780415217828
• ISBN10: 0415217822
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Now available as one paperback volume, the second edition of this authoritative text provides a survey of Islamic history and thought with new chapters on intellectual thought and medieval developments. It seeks to redress the lack of critical thought that appears in so many introductory books on Islam. Rippin examines the elements which come together to form Islam, in particular the Qur'an and the traditions from Muhammad. He traces the way these sources have interacted through history to create the disciplines of theology and law and provide the basis for the "alternative visions" of Islam found in Shi'ism and Sufism.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Transliteration and other technical considerations	xi
Introduction	1	(4)
PART I Formative elements of classical Islam	5	(50)
Prehistory	7	(12)
The Qur'an	19	(20)
Muhammad	39	(16)
PART II Emergence of Islamic identity	55	(56)
Political action and theory	57	(11)
Theological exposition	68	(15)
Legal developments	83	(14)
Ritual practice	97	(14)
PART III Alternative visions of Islamic identity	111	(30)
The Shia	113	(14)
Sufi devotion	127	(14)
PART IV Consolidation of Islamic identity	141	(24)
Intellectual culture	143	(10)
Medieval visions of Islam	153	(12)
PART V Modern visions of Islam	165	(100)
Describing modernity	167	(22)
Muhammad and modernity	189	(29)
The Qur'an and modernity	218	(28)
Issues of identity	246	(19)
PART VI Re-visioning Islam	265	(26)
Feminism's Islam	267	(14)
Visions for Islam in the twenty-first century and beyond	281	(10)
Notes	291	(31)
Glossary	322	(7)
Further reading	329	(6)
Resources on the Internet	335	(4)
General index	339	(6)
Index of Qur'an citations	345