Classical Islam by Calder, Norman -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of figures Preface Notes for the reader Map: Centres of Muslim learning in medieval times PART ONE Formation and salvation history

1. The Qur’ān

2. The life of Muhammad

2.1 Muhammad in the Qur’ān

2.2 Ibn ‘Abbās on the heavenly ascension 2.3 Ibn Ishāq and Ibn Hishām on Muhammad’s opponents

2.3.1 Abū Lahab and Umm Jamīl 2.3.2 Relations with Quraysh of Mecca 2.3.3 Relations with the Jews of Medina

2.4 Ibn Sa‘d on Muhammad’s life

2.4.1 On the Satanic verses 2.4.2 Muhammad’s wives

2.5 Al-Wāqidī on the raid at Bi’r Ma‘ūna

3. Hadīth

4. Religious history

4.6.1 Al-Ya‘qūbī 4.6.2 Al-Muqaddasī

4.7 Inscriptions in the Dome of the Rock 4.8 ‘Umar II and the ‘protected people’

PART TWO Elaboration of the tradition

5. Qur’ānic interpretation

6. Theology and philosophy

6.1 Abū ‘Ubayd on faith 6.2 Al-Nawawī on faith and the divine decree 6.3 Ibn Qutayba on the partisans of theological reasoning 6.4 Al-Ghazālī on theological reasoning 6.5 ‘Abd al-Jabbār on knowledge 6.6 Al-Ash‘arī on the Qur’ān, the word of God, as uncreated 6.7 Al-Nasafī and al-Taftāzānī on God’s speech 6.8 Ibn al-Jawzī on the edicts of the caliph al-Qādir 6.9 Al-Bāqillānī on the Barāhima 6.10 Al-Nawbakhtī on the Imāmiyya 6.11 Al-Tūsī and al-‘Allāma al-Hillī on prophecy 6.12 Al-Fārābī on the soul

7. Law

7.1 Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr on the status of the sunna 7.2 Ibn Qudāma on the status of the mujtahid 7.3 Al-Nawawī on the grades and the ranks of muftīs 7.4 The fatwās of al-Nawawī 7.5 Ibn Hazm on dispute and variation in law 7.6 Al-Shīrāzī on the distribution of alms 7.7 Al-Sarakhsī on zakāt 7.8 Al-Tūsī on the division of khums 7.9 Al-Muhaqqiq al-Hillī on the distribution of zakāt 7.10 Nāsir-i Khusraw on zakāt

8. Sūfism

8.1 Al-Ghazālī on the path of the Sūfīs 8.2 Al-Kharrāz on proximity to God (qurb) 8.3 Al-Sarrāj on the sunna and musical audition 8.4 Abū Nu‘aym’s biography of al-Bastāmī 8.5 Al-Qushayrī on the term Sūfī, Sūfī states and satisfaction 8.6 Hujwīrī on drunkenness and sobriety 8.7 Ibn al-‘Arabī on proximity to God 8.8 Rūmī and the Mathnawī 8.9 Shāh Ni‘mat Allāh Walī on the path to union 8.10 Hāfiz and six ghazals from his Dīwān

Glossary-Index