Islam in the World

by Ruthven, Malise

• ISBN13: 9780195138412
• ISBN10: 0195138414
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This valuable introductory guide provides a complete and lively summary of Islam, one of the most worldly of the great religions, in which the quest for spiritual fulfillment is inevitably bound up with political aspirations. Malise Ruthven presents a full overview of the religion in its historical, geographic, and social settings. For this revised and long-awaited second edition, Ruthven divides his original chapters into more accessible sub-sections and provides new headings. Also included is a new concluding chapter that focuses on women in Islam, the challenges Islam faces in today's climate of globalization, and the key developments in Islamic political history since 1984--an especially fertile period that has seen, among other things, the Taliban movement in Afghanistan and the controversial publication of Rushdie's Satanic Verses . Islam and the World, Second Edition likewise features a new preface, redrawn maps, updated data on population and dispersal, and a new chronology of events with genealogical charts.

Author Biography

Malise Ruthven was, prior to its closure in 1999, a lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Religions at the University of Aberdeen. He also taught at the department of religion at Dartmouth College, USA and at the University of California, San Diego.

Table of Contents

Maps	viii
List of Illustrations	xviii
Preface to the Second Edition	xx
Introductory: Pilgrimage to Makka	1	(25)
Muhammad the Model	26	(54)
The Quranic World-view	80	(42)
Law and Disorder	122	(52)
Sects and Solidarity	174	(45)
Spiritual Renewal	219	(63)
Challenge from the West	282	(70)
After Word (1999)	352	(51)
References	403	(16)
Suggestions for Further Reading	419	(6)
Glossary	425	(8)
Genealogical Tables	433	(2)
A Chronology	435	(10)
Index	445