Islam in Historical Perspective

Alexander Knysh

Paperback

9781138193703

Contents

1 Arabia: The Cradle of Islam

2 Muhammad s.a.w. and the Beginnings of Islam: The Making of the Muslim Community

3 After Muhammad s.a.w.: The Rightly Guided Caliphs and the Conquests

4 The Murder of Uthman, the Fitna Wars, and the Rise and Consolidation of the Umayyad Dynasty

5 The Principal Source of Islam: The Quran

6 The Prophetic Hadith and Sunna and the Emergence of the Sharia

7 The Problem of the Just Ruler and the First Divisions Within the Community

8 The Abbasid Revolution and Beyond

9 Islamic Scholarship Under the Abbasids: The Rise and Development of the Schools of Law

10 Islamic Scholarship Under the Abbasids: Theological Debates and Schools of Thought

11 Twelver Shiism and Zaydism

12 Shiism as a Revolutionary Movement: The Ismailis

13 Ascetic and Mystical Movement in Islam: Sufism

14 Intellectual Struggles in Premodern Islam: Philosophy Versus Theology

15 Transmission and Conservation of Knowledge: Ulama , Madrasas, and Sufi Lodges

16 The Basic Beliefs and Practices of Islam: Islamic Life Cycle

17 Islamic Art and Religious Architecture (Mosque)

18 Women in Islamic Societies

19 Islam and the West

20 Islam in the Gunpowder Empires: The World of Islam Faces Modernity and European Colonialism

21 Renewal and Reform in Islam: The Emergence of Islamic Modernism and Reformism

22 Islam as a Political Force and Vehicle of Opposition

23 Islam Reinterpreted: Major Trends in Islamic Thought Today

24 The Ideology and Practice of Globalized Jihadism