Muslims (5^th Ed.) Their Religious Beliefs and Practices The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices Series

Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices offers a survey of Islamic history and thought from the formative period of the religion to the contemporary period. It examines the unique elements which have combined to form Islam, in particular, the Qur??n and perceptions of the Prophet Mu?ammad, and traces the ways in which these ideas have interacted to influence Islam?s path to the present. Combining core source materials with coverage of current scholarship and of recent events in the Islamic world, Bernheimer and Rippin introduce this hugely significant religion, including alternative visions of Islam found in Shi?ism and Sufism, in a succinct, challenging, and refreshing way. The improved and expanded fifth edition is updated throughout and includes new textboxes.

With detailed illustrations and a new companion website, Muslims is the ideal introduction for students who wish to explore the key issues of Muslims, from the Qur??n to Islamic feminism, to issues of identity, Islamophobia, and modern visions of Islam.

List of Illustrations

Preface to the fifth edition

Introduction

Part I: Formative elements of classical Islam

1 Prehistory

2 The Qurān

3 Muḥammad

Part II: Emergence of Islamic identity

4 Political action and theory

5 Theological exposition

6 Legal developments

7 Ritual practice

Part III: Alternative visions of classical Islamic identity

8 The Shī a

9 Ṣūfī devotion

Part IV: Consolidation of Islamic identity

10 Intellectual culture

11 Medieval visions of Islam

Part V: Modern visions of Islam

12 Describing modernity

13 Muḥammad and modernity

14 The Qurān and modernity

15 Issues of identity: ritual and politics

Part VI: Re-visioning Islam

16 Women, intellectuals, and other challenges

17 Perceptions of Muslims in the twenty-first century

Glossary

References

General index

Index of Qurʾān citations

Teresa Bernheimer is currently Gerda Henkel Fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, working on religious extremism in the early Islamic period.

Andrew Rippin was Professor of History and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, Canada, and among the foremost scholars of the Qurʾān.