About the Book
The Islamic World is an outstanding guide to Islamic faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity. Written by a distinguished international team of scholars, it elucidates the history, philosophy and practice of one of the world's great religious traditions. Its grounding in contemporary scholarship makes it an ideal reference source for students and scholars alike.
Edited by Andrew Rippin, a leading scholar of Islam, the volume covers the political, geographical, religious, intellectual, cultural and social worlds of Islam, and offers insight into all aspects of Muslim life including the Qur’an and law, philosophy, science and technology, art, literature, and film and much else. It explores the concept of an ‘Islamic’ world: what makes it distinctive and how uniform is that distinctiveness across Muslim geographical regions and through history?
Table of Contents:
Introduction, Andrew Rippin; Part I The Geo-Political Islamic World; Chapter 1 The Arab Middle East, Martin Bunton; Chapter 2 West Africa, David Owusu-Ansah; Chapter 3 East Africa, Valerie J. Hoffman; Chapter 4 Turkey, Markus Dressler; Chapter 5 Iran, Elton L. Daniel; Chapter 6 Central Asia, Devin DeWeese; Chapter 7 Southeast Asia, Nelly van Doorn-Harder; Chapter 8 Europe, John R. Bowen; Chapter 9 The Diaspora in the West, Amir Hussain; Part II The Religious Islamic World; Chapter 10 The Qur??n, Gordon Nickel, Andrew Rippin; Chapter 11 Mu?ammad, Michael Lecker; Chapter 12 Sunn? Law, Robert Gleave; Chapter 13 Theology: Freewill and Predestination, Suleiman Ali Mourad; Chapter 14 Ritual Life, Zayn Kassam; Chapter 15 Sufism, Art Buehler; Chapter 16 Shi?ism, William Shepard; Chapter 17 The Ib???s, Valerie J. Hoffman; Chapter 18 Relations with Other Religions, David Thomas; Part III The Intellectual Islamic World; Chapter 19 The Arabic Language, Mustafa Shah; Chapter 20 Philosophy, Oliver Leaman; Chapter 21 The Scientific Tradition, George Saliba; Chapter 22 Education, Jeffrey C. Burke; Chapter 23 The Transmission of Knowledge, Paul L. Heck; Chapter 24 Travel, David Waines; Part III-1 Biographies; Chapter 25 ?Abd Al-Jabb?r, Gabriel Said Reynolds; Chapter 26 Ni??m Al-Mulk, Neguin Yavari; Chapter 27 Al-Ghaz?l?, Frank Griffel; Chapter 28 Ibn ?Arab?, Sajjad H. Rizvi; Chapter 29 Ibn Taymiyya, David Waines; Chapter 30 N??ir Al-D?n Al-??s?, Zayn Kassam; Chapter 31 Al-Suy???, Suleiman Ali Mourad; Chapter 32 Sh?h Wal? All?h, Marcia K. Hermansen; Chapter 33 Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, Zeki Saritoprak; Chapter 34 Sayyid Qu?b, William Shepard; Chapter 35 Fazlur Rahman, Earle H. Waugh; Part IV The Cultural Islamic World; Chapter 36 Art, Hussein Keshani; Chapter 37 Architecture, Hussein Keshani; Chapter 38 Material Culture, James E. Lindsay; Chapter 39 Military Organization and Warfare, Niall Christie; Chapter 40 Popular Piety and Cultural Practices, Earle H. Waugh; Chapter 41 Music, Michael Frishkopf; Chapter 42 Cinema, Gönül Dönmez-Colin; Part V Social Issues and the Islamic World; Chapter 43 Civilization, Akbar Ahmed; Chapter 44 Social Change, Ebrahim Moosa; Chapter 45 Secularism, Amila Buturovic; Chapter 46 Public Ethics, Amyn B. Sajoo; Chapter 47 Marriage, Family, and Sexual Ethics, Kecia Ali; Chapter 48 Women, Gender and Human Rights, Simonetta Calderini; Chapter 49 Religious Minority Rights, Christopher Buck;
Review :
'Unlike many other works that attempt to look at the Islamic world from one perspective, the essays in this volume by well-known scholars in their respective fields shed light on the Islamic world from several perspectives: geo-political, religious, intellectual, cultural and social...Despite the challenges of dealing with such a vast geographical region crossing linguistic, ethnic and cultural boundaries over 1400 years , the essays presented here maintain superb academic rigour, comprehensive coverage and authoritativeness while keeping the material accessible to the student of Islam...This is a brilliant work, presented within a multidisciplinary framework, that both scholars and students of Islam will find exciting and stimulating.' – Abdullah Saeed, University of Melbourne, Australia
