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050	0	0	_aBP 161.2 _b.D46 2006
082	0	0	_a297 _222
100	1		_aDenny, Frederick Mathewson. _92784
245	1	3	_aAn introduction to Islam / _cFrederick Mathewson Denny.
250			_a3rd ed.
260			_aUpper Saddle River, N.J. : _bPearson Prentice Hall, _cc2006.
300			_axiii, 418 p. : _bill., map ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aContents:
505			_aReligion and common life in the pre-Islamic Near East. Early civilizations and the origins of Judaism and Christianity ; Pre-Islamic Arabia : beliefs, values, way of life -- The coming of Islam : the prophet, his people, and God's religion. Muhammad and the early Muslim community ; The Arab conquests and Islamic rule : the struggle for a unified umma -- The Islamic religious system. The basic beliefs and worship practices of Islam ; The nature and function of the Qur'an ; The prophet's Sunna as in the Ḥadīth ; Muslim creeds and theologies : their purposes and varieties ; Law and the state in classical Islamic formulations -- The Sufi way of mysticism and fellowship. Islamic mysticism and the disciplines of esoteric piety ; Masters and disciples : the forms and functions of Sufi orders -- Patterns of Islamic personal and communal life. The Islamic life cycle and the family ; Ideals and realities of Islamic community life -- Islam in the modern world. Major movements and trends in renewal and reform ; Three forms of Islamic revival: "fundamentalism," feminism, and establishing the umma in North America ; Whither Islam and the Muslims? : progressive Muslims with a vision of an "Islam without borders."
650		0	_aIslam. _92785
906			_a7 _bcbc _corignew _d1 _eecip _f20 _gy-gencatlg
942			_2lcc _cBOOK _hBP 161.2 _i.D46 2006
999			_c793 _d793