Islam

Whether it's the Qur'an, Prophecy, ritual, law, politics, or gender in Islam, this collection of articles will give you a glimpse of some of the leading debates in these topics. Covering the last fifty years of western thought on Islam, this is an essential reading and reference tool for scholars of Islamic Studies and Religious Studies. The articles are intellectually bold and provide a comprehensive understanding of the different dimensions of Islam.

Editor's Introduction: Islam

MonaSiddiqui

This four volume collection has an ambitious aim. The primary objective is to give the reader a wide range of leading articles published in the select disciplines within Islamic Studies. While there have been several edited collections in recent years of articles on a single discipline such as Colin Turner's Koran, Lloyd Ridgeon's Sufism, and the more diverse social scientific perspectives in Bryan Turner's Islam there is (at least to my knowledge) no multi-volume collection of published articles on this number of different themes which reflect the diverse manifestations of Islam and Islamic thought.1 This collection is for those who have an informed interest in Islam as a global religion as well as those engaged in the academic study of Islam; for ...

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