The Islamic World: Past and Present

✍ Scribed by John L. Esposito

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 220
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Since the events of September 11, 2001, students and people everywhere are filled with questions about Islam. What do Muslims believe? Who is Osama bin Laden? What is a jihad? Even though Islam is a major religion with more than one billion followers worldwide and more than six million in the United States alone, there is still uncertainty and misunderstanding about the ideas, tenets, and practice of Islam. Understanding Islam and the people who believe in it has become crucially important in the greater world. The Islamic World: Past and Present is the ideal source for fostering understanding and answering questions. John Esposito's acclaimed four-volume The Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (1995) set the standard in references on Islam. Adapted from this award-winning set, The Islamic World: Past and Present brings all the scholarship and information of the original to general readers and college and high school students.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
VOLUME 1
Preface
Chronology of the Islamic World
A
Abbasid Caliphate
Abd al-Qadir
Abduh, Muhammad
Ablution
Abortion
Abraham
Abu Hanifah
Afghani, Jamal al-Din al-
Afghanistan
Afterlife
Ahmadi
Ahmad Khan, Sayyid
A'ishah
Akbar, Jalaludin Muhammad
Alawi
Albania
Alchemy
Algeria
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Allah
Amir
Andalusia
Arabic Language and Literature
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Arab League
Architecture
Art
Ashari, Abu al-Hasan al-
Assassins
Astronomy
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
Azhar, al-
B
Babism
Baha'i
Bangladesh
Banks and Banking
Barakah
Bazaar
Bin Laden, Osama
Body Decoration
Bosnia
Brunei
C
Calendar, Islamic
Caliph
Caliphate
Canada
Capitalism and Islam
Capital Punishment
Caribbean
Caucasus
Central Africa
Central Asia
Charity
China
Chishtiyah
Christianity and Islam
Cinema
Citizenship
Civil Society
Clothing
Coffee and Coffeehouses
Colonialism
Communism and Islam
Conversion
Córdoba, Caliphate of
Cosmology
Creed
Crusades
D
Day of Judgment
Death and Funerals
Democracy
Dietary Rules
Divorce
Druze
E
East Africa
Economics
Education
Egypt
Eid al-Adha
Elijah Muhammad
Ethics
Europe
F
Family
Farabi, Abu Nasr al-
Farrakhan, Louis
Fasting
Fatimah
Fatimid Dynasty
Fatwa
Food and Feasts
Fundamentalism
G
Games and Sports
Gasprinskii, Ismail Bey
Ghazali, Abu Hamid al-
Ghazali, Zaynab al-
Government
Great Britain
Gulf States
H
Hadith
Hair and Beards
Hajj
Hamas
Harem
Harun al-Rashid
Health Care
Hijab
Hijrah
Historians
Glossary
A
B
C
D
E
F
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Z
People and Places

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