Islam

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Unprecedented in scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Islam is the most comprehensive gathering of primary texts available. Organized chronologically, with thematic groupings within sections, the anthology brings together over 100 texts from the Qur'an in the seventh century to feminist and pluralist readings of the Qur'an in the twenty-first century. The volume features Jack Miles?s illuminating General Introduction--٢How...

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ISBN:

9780393355024

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xxx, 659, A3-A27, 8 pages plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Contents:

How the West Learned to Compare Religions / Jack Miles
Submission to God as the Wellspring of a Civilization / Jane Dammen McAuliffe. The Foundational Epoch, 610-750. Qur'an: God's Culminating Gift to Humankind
Sira: The Life Story of the Prophet. The Classical Synthesis, 750-1756. Hadith and Sunna: The Perfect Man Remembered as the Perfect Guide to Life
Shari'a and Fiqh: Divine Will and Human Interpretation
The Intellectual Elaboration of the Classical Synthesis
Belles Lettres: The Fine Arts of Poetry and Prose. The Classical Synthesis Encounters Modernity, 1765 to the Present. Colonialism and Postcolonialism
The Religious Reassertion
The Emergence of Women's Voices
Negotiating Religious Pluralism

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2594416

Other Authors:

Miles, Jack, editor

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