Islam in historical perspective /
Knysh, Alexander D.,
Islam in historical perspective / Alexander Knysh. - xiii, 534 páginas : ilustraciones ; 24 centímetros.
Bibliografía : páginas 506-516. Indice : páginas 518-534.
Preface -- Introduction -- Arabia : the cradle of Islam -- Muhammad and the beginning of Islam : the making of the Muslim community -- After Muhammad : the "rightly guided" caliphs and the Arab conquests -- The murder of 'Uthman, the fitna wars, and the rise and consolidation of the Umayyad dynasty -- The principal source of Islam : the Qur'an -- The prophetic Hadith and Sunna and the emergence of the Shari'a -- The first divisions within the community and the problem of the just ruler -- The 'Abbásid revolution and beyond -- Islamic scholarship under the 'Abbásids : the rise and development of the schools of law -- Islamic scholarship under the 'Abbásids : theological debates and schools of thought -- Twelver Shi'ism and Zaydism -- Shi'ism as a revolutionary movement : the Ismaʻilis -- Ascetic and mystical movements : origins, teachings, and practices -- The institutional and social aspects of later Sufism -- Intellectual struggles in premodern Islam : philosophy versus theology -- Transmission and conservation of knowledge : ʻUlamáʼ, Mádrasas, and Sufi lodges -- The basic beliefs and practices of Islam : Islamic life cycle -- Islamic art religious architecture (Mosque) -- The status of women in Islam in historical perspective -- Islam and the West -- The religious policies of the gunpowder empires : the world of Islam faces modernity and European colonialsim -- Renewal and reform in Islam : the emergence of Islamic modernism and reformism -- Islam as a political force and vehicle of opposition/resistance -- Islam reinterpreted : major trends in Islamic thought today -- The ideology and practice of globalized Jihadism -- Conclusion : Whither Islam?.
0321398777 9780321398772
Islam--Historia.
Islam--Historiografía.
297 / K65
Islam in historical perspective / Alexander Knysh. - xiii, 534 páginas : ilustraciones ; 24 centímetros.
Bibliografía : páginas 506-516. Indice : páginas 518-534.
Preface -- Introduction -- Arabia : the cradle of Islam -- Muhammad and the beginning of Islam : the making of the Muslim community -- After Muhammad : the "rightly guided" caliphs and the Arab conquests -- The murder of 'Uthman, the fitna wars, and the rise and consolidation of the Umayyad dynasty -- The principal source of Islam : the Qur'an -- The prophetic Hadith and Sunna and the emergence of the Shari'a -- The first divisions within the community and the problem of the just ruler -- The 'Abbásid revolution and beyond -- Islamic scholarship under the 'Abbásids : the rise and development of the schools of law -- Islamic scholarship under the 'Abbásids : theological debates and schools of thought -- Twelver Shi'ism and Zaydism -- Shi'ism as a revolutionary movement : the Ismaʻilis -- Ascetic and mystical movements : origins, teachings, and practices -- The institutional and social aspects of later Sufism -- Intellectual struggles in premodern Islam : philosophy versus theology -- Transmission and conservation of knowledge : ʻUlamáʼ, Mádrasas, and Sufi lodges -- The basic beliefs and practices of Islam : Islamic life cycle -- Islamic art religious architecture (Mosque) -- The status of women in Islam in historical perspective -- Islam and the West -- The religious policies of the gunpowder empires : the world of Islam faces modernity and European colonialsim -- Renewal and reform in Islam : the emergence of Islamic modernism and reformism -- Islam as a political force and vehicle of opposition/resistance -- Islam reinterpreted : major trends in Islamic thought today -- The ideology and practice of globalized Jihadism -- Conclusion : Whither Islam?.
0321398777 9780321398772
Islam--Historia.
Islam--Historiografía.
297 / K65