TY  - BOOK
AU  - Renard,John
TI  - The handy Islam answer book
SN  - 9781578595105 (pbk.) :
AV  - BP161.3 .R465 2015
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Detroit
PB  - Visible Ink Press
KW  - Islam
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
ER  -