Islam by Ayoub, Mahmoud -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Preface Map Prologue – Islam: A Personal Faith? 1 Origins and Early History

Islam: Name and Concept Arabia before Islam The City of Makkah Muhammad the Prophet: His Life and Mission

2 Prophethood, Revelation, and the Qur’ān

Prophethood and History Messengers of God The Qur’an: Its History, Teachings, and Role in the Community

3 Faith and Worship

Faith and Action The Five Pillars of Islam

4 The Formative Period of Muslim History

5 The Age of the Caliphs

The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750) The ‘Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258)

6 The Spread of Islam

Islam in North Africa and Spain Islam in Other Parts of Africa Islam in Central Asia Islam in China Islam in South Asia Islam in Southeast Asia

7 The Religious Sciences

The Foundations of Law and Morality Early Developments of Jurisprudence The Six Canonical Hadith Collections The Nature and Scope of Islamic Law The End of Ijtihad and the Valorization of the Sunni Legal Schools The Shi‘i Tradition

8 Sufism: The Mystical Tradition

The Origins of Sufism Early Asceticism Formative History The Crystallization of Sufism Stations and States Theosophical Sufism Ibn ‘Arabi, the Great Shaykh Epic Poetry Sufi Brotherhoods Veneration of the Awliya’ Devotional Practices Sufi Orders and the Decline of Sufism

9 Theology and Philosophy

Theology: Scope and Sources Philosophy

10 Women and Men

Women and the Family in Pre-Islamic Arabia Types of Marriage The Muslim Family Marriage and Divorce in Classical Islamic Law Women and the Family: Modern Discourses and Reforms

11 Islam and Modernity

Pre-modernist Reform Movements Islamic Revivalist Movements in the Nineteenth Century Modernist Reformers Twentieth-Century Modernism and Secularism Contemporary Revivalist Movements State Islam and the Islamic Revolution Islam in Western Europe Islam in North America

Epilogue: The Muslim Ummah and the Modern World Notes Further Reading Index