TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watt, William Montgomery
TI  - The Formative Period of Islamic Thought
SN  - 1851681523
AV  - BP 166.1 .W3 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Oxford, England
PB  - Oneworld
KW  - Islam
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - History
N1  - Includes abbreviations, notes and index; Contents; Part 1 The beginnings: the Kharaijites; Proto-Shi'ite phenomena under the Umayyads; the general religious movement; God's determination of events; faith and community. Part 2 The century of struggle (750-850): the establishment of the 'Abbasids; the attraction of reasoning; the great Mu'tazilites. Part 3 The triumph of Sunnism; the political background; the maturing of Sunnite theology
N2  - Summary; This landmark book describes the course of religious thinking within Islam from the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, to 950
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ER  -