Islam by Fazlur Rahman (1979, Trade Paperback)

University of Chicago Press

0226702812

9780226702810

88261

Fazlur Rahman

Trade Paperback

English

Religious, Islam / General

1979

Textbook

Religion, Philosophy

278 Pages

9in

0.6in

5.9in

15.6 Oz

0.6in

6.2in

8.9in

15.6 Oz

Bp161.2.R29 1979

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Islam

Foreword Preface Introduction 1 MUHAMMAD Muhammad and the Revelation - Muhammad's Struggle - Muhammad's Strategy - Jews and Christians - Conclusion 2 THE QUR'AN What is the Qur'an? - The Qur'anic Teaching - The Qur'anic Legislation - Commentaries on the Qur'an 3 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRADITION Preliminary - The State of Western Scholarship - The Nature of the Prophet's Authority - Hadith and Sunna, or the Verbal and Practical Tradition - Classical Opposition to the Health - Development of the 'Science of the Hadith' 4 THE STRUCTURE OF THE LAW Preliminary - Early Developments: Qur'an and Sunna; Qiyas; Ijma or Consensus - Al-Shafi'i and After - The Law and the State - For- mation of the Legal Schools - Conclusion 5 DIALECTICAL THEOLOGY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOGMA The Early Phase - The Mu'tazila - Ash'arism and Maturidism - Philosophy and Kalam 6 THE SHARI'A Preliminary - Development of the Concept of Shari'a - The Tradi- tionalist Reform: Ibn Taymiya - The Shari'a and the Law 7 THE PHILOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT The Philosophical Tradition -Orthodoxy and Philosophy - Philo- sophic Religion 8 SUFI DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE Rise and Early Development of Sufism - Beginnings of Institutional Sufism - The Sufi Way - The Emergence of Orthodox Sufism - The Sufi Theosophy 9 SUFI ORGANIZATIONS Sufism and Popular Religion - The Sufi Orders - Sequel 10 SECTARIAN DEVELOPMENTS The Khawarij - The Shi'a - Sub-sects of the Shi'a 11 EDUCATION The Schools - The Character of Medieval Islamic Learning - Curri- culum and Instruction 12 PRE-MODERNIST REFORM MOVEMENTS Tensions within Pre-Modernist Islam - The Wahhabis - The Indian Reform Movements - The African Reform Movements 13 MODERN DEVELOPMENTS Preliminary - Intellectual Modernism - Political Modernism - Modernism and Society 14 LEGACY AND PROSPECTS Faith and History - The Legacy to be Reformulated: The Political Dogma; The Moral Principles; The Spiritual Ideals - The Present and the Future Epilogue Notes to the Chapters Bibliography Index

1979

78-068547

297

Scholarly & Professional

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