Islam: An Introduction and Bibliography (original) (raw)
Islam: An advanced introduction
London – New York, Routledge, 2021, x + 125 p.
Exploring complex relations between Muslim visions and critical stances, this textbook is a compact introduction to Islam, dealing with the origins of its forms, from early developments to contemporary issues, including religious principles, beliefs and practices. The author's innovative method considers the various opposing theories and approaches between the Islamic tradition and scholars of Islam. Each topic is accompanied by up-to-date bibliographical references and a list of titles for further study, while an exhaustive glossary includes the elementary notions to allow in-depth study. Part I outlines the two founding aspects, the Qur'an and the Prophet Muhammad, highlighting essential concepts, according to Islamic religious discourse and related critical issues. In Part II, the emergence of the religious themes that have characterised the formation of Islam are explored in terms of historical developments. Part III, on contemporary Islam, examines the growth of Islam between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern age. Advanced readers, already familiar with the elementary notions of Islam and religious studies will benefit from Islam that explores the development of religious discourse in a historical perspective. This unique textbook is a key resource for postgraduate researchers and academics interested in Islam, religion and the Middle East.
Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West
Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West, ed. R. Tottoli (introduction by R.Tottoli, pp. 1-15, London – New York, Routledge, 2015 [2014], xiii + 478 pp. , 2015
Islam has long been a part of the West in terms of religion, culture, politics and society. Discussing this interaction from al-Andalus to the present, this Handbook explores the influence Islam has had, and continues to exert; particularly its impact on host societies, culture and politics. Highlighting specific themes and topics in history and culture, chapters cover: European paradigms Muslims in the Americas Cultural interactions Islamic cultural contributions to the Western world Western contributions to Islam
Islam, Religion, Practice, Culture and World Order
American Journal of Islam and Society
Isma‘il al-Faruqi (1921-86), a reformer, a visionary, and a great modernscholar, wrote on several aspects of Islam and Muslim interactions with majorspiritual traditions of the world. This short book is a collection of his brief reflectionson Islam’s basic ideals. Thus it is not a research work, but rather anexplication on how Islam should be comprehended on its own merit. Expressedin simple language to make its contents accessible to the general publicand containing no references, it consists of seven parts each comprised ofthree or four chapters. The arrangement of topics was not chronological, eventhough one would have expected its editor, Imtiyaz Yusuf – one of al-Faruqi’sstudents – to pay attention to such order by rearranging the chapters. For example, one would logically expect the discussion of the isrOE’ and mi‘rOEj tocome before the discussion of the hijrah ...
Handbook of Contemporary Islam and Muslim Lives, 2018
Today there are over one and a half billion Muslims worldwide, making it, after Christianity, the second largest religion on the planet. The story of how a world view developed by desert nomads on the Arabian Peninsula in the sixth century CE went on to become such a major international religion is a complicated story. The present chapter seeks to tell this story with an eye to understanding the great diversity that today exists in the Muslim world. This diversity is the direct result of Muhammad’s original message as subsequently developed and expanded by later generations in response to various social, legal, religious, intellectual, and cultural needs. As Islam spread into new areas, the combination of received or inherited religious teachings and the various cultural expressions found in those areas created new and diverse Islamic expressions. While not wanting to draw a strict separation between Islam, the religion, and the cultures in which it may be found, it is important to acknowledge that, wishes of some conservative groups to the contrary, there is no one way to understand Islam or even fixed normativity. If this is true even today, it was even more the case in the early period as the immediate generations following Muhammad struggled to understand and codify his teachings. There existed – and continue to exist – many types of Muslim groups and communities, all of whom have constructed identities for themselves based on their particular understanding of the tradition. All of these diverse identities, however, legitimate and authenticate themselves based on their self-proclaimed ability to channel what their followers believe to be the originary message of the Prophet Muhammad. Because of this, any attempt to understand Islam must involve an appreciation of both its religious teachings and an awareness of its diverse cultural forms. Islam today exists not just on the Arabian Peninsula but in Africa, South Asia, Europe, the Americas, and beyond. How Islam arrived in all these diverse places is a historical question, whereas how Islam is understood and practices in these diverse locales is primarily a cultural one.