Islam: Islam as religion and lawBryan S. Turner Looking beyond the myths and headlines of Islam this text explores the religion from a social science viewpoint. The collection explores Islamic thought and institutions and represents a critical introduction to the system of Islamic belief and practice from a social science perspective, emphasizing the global nature of Islam in the twentieth century. Including a new introduction and index, the collection will prove an invaluable reference tool and teaching aid. |
Contents
ISLAM AS RELIGION AND | 1 |
Jordanian Islamists and the dilemma | 46 |
The Quranic concept of God the universe and man | 48 |
Index 419 | 50 |
The Quran the word of God the source of knowledge and action | 63 |
The Qurān | 83 |
Personal life traits and practices of the prophet | 95 |
Law as the hukm of Allāh | 118 |
The spiritual states in Sufism | 215 |
Man and Islam | 229 |
The status of the individual in Islam | 236 |
Islâm and image | 245 |
Malay families womens bodies | 262 |
The concepts of peace and war in Islam | 282 |
The classical Muslim state | 295 |
Ideology | 314 |
Ḥadīth its importance origin and development | 134 |
Eschatology | 148 |
The principle of ethics | 162 |
the concept of religion and the foundation | 184 |
the example of Islam | 329 |
A comparison of Islâm and Christianity as framework | 364 |
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