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The handy Islam answer book / John Renard, Ph.D.
Publication details: Detroit : Visible Ink Press, [2015]Description: xii, 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781578595105 (pbk.) :
- 157859510X (pbk.) :
- BP161.3 .R465 2015
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Historical Perspectives -- 1. Origins and early expansion -- 2. Islam's Growth into a Global Community -- 3. Politics and Contemporary Global Affairs -- Part Two: Religious Perspectives -- 4. Sacred Sources and their Interpretation -- 5. Essential Beliefs -- 6. Symbols, Rituals, and Religious Observances -- 7. Themes in Islamic Spirituality -- 8. Authority, Law and Ethics -- 9. Islam and Other Faiths -- Part Three: Cultural Perspectives - Learning and Communicating Islamic Values -- 10. Culture and Religion -- 11. Knowledge, Scholarship, and the Islamic Humanities -- 12. Aesthetics, Literature, the Visual and Spatial Arts -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Global Timeline -- Glossary -- Index.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | BP 161.3 .R465 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5117312 |
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| BP 161.3 .K49 2010 Key themes for the study of Islam / | BP 161.3 .L96 2012 Islam through Western eyes : from the crusades to the war on terrorism / | BP 161.3 .L96 2014 Islam through Western eyes : from the crusades to the war on terrorism / | BP 161.3 .R465 2015 The handy Islam answer book / | BP 161.3 .T53 2009 Islam's predicament with modernity : religious reform and cultural change / | BP 161.3 .T878 2011 Islam : the basics / | BP 163 .D3 2008 Islamic liberation theology : resisting the empire / |
Machine generated contents note: Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Historical Perspectives -- 1. Origins and early expansion -- 2. Islam's Growth into a Global Community -- 3. Politics and Contemporary Global Affairs -- Part Two: Religious Perspectives -- 4. Sacred Sources and their Interpretation -- 5. Essential Beliefs -- 6. Symbols, Rituals, and Religious Observances -- 7. Themes in Islamic Spirituality -- 8. Authority, Law and Ethics -- 9. Islam and Other Faiths -- Part Three: Cultural Perspectives - Learning and Communicating Islamic Values -- 10. Culture and Religion -- 11. Knowledge, Scholarship, and the Islamic Humanities -- 12. Aesthetics, Literature, the Visual and Spatial Arts -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Global Timeline -- Glossary -- Index.
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