Cook has achieved something special in this work. He demonstrates that he is a rare and gifted scholar with an awesome ability to intregrate vast seas of thought into one coherent whole. This work covers "Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong" from its origins in the Koran up until modern times, t
Commanding right and forbidding wrong in Islamic thought
✍ Scribed by M. A. Cook
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 720
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Preface (page ix)
Acknowledgments (page xv)
PART I: INTRODUCTORY
1. THE GOLDSMITH OF MARW (page 3)
2. KORAN AND KORANIC EXEGESIS (page 13)
3. TRADITION (page 32)
4. BIOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE ABOUT EARLY MUSLIMS (page 46)
PART II: THE ḤANBALITES
5. IBN ḤANBAL (page 87)
6. THE ḤANBALITES OF BAGHDAD (page 114)
7. THE ḤANBALITES OF DAMASCUS (page 145)
8. THE ḤANBALITES OF NAJD (page 165)
PART III: THE MU'TAZILITES AND SHĪ'ITES
9. THE MU'TAZILITES (page 195)
10. THE ZAYDĪS (page 227)
11. THE ĪMĀMĪS (page 252)
PART IV: OTHER SECTS AND SCHOOLS
12. THE ḤANAFĪS (page 307)
13. THE SHĀFI'ITES (page 339)
14. THE MĀLIKĪS (page 357)
15. THE IBĀḌĪS (page 393)
16. GHAZZĀLĪ (page 427)
17. CLASSICAL ISLAM IN RETROSPECT (page 469)
PART V: BEYOND CLASSICAL ISLAM
18. MODERN ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENTS (page 505)
19. ORIGINS AND COMPARISONS (page 561)
20. CONCLUSION (page 585)
APPENDIX 1: Key Koranic verses and traditions (page 597)
APPENDIX 2: Barhebraeus on forbidding wrong (page 600)
Bibliography (page 604)
Postscript (page 660)
Index (page 661)
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