Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices)
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Overview
Andrew Rippin’s Muslims is essential reading for students and scholars alike. This new edition has been comprehensively updated and for the first time features a companion website with extensive links to additional reading and resources to help deepen students’ understanding of the subject.
Muslims offers a survey of Islamic history and thought from the formative period of the religion to modern times. It examines the unique elements which have combined to form Islam, in particular the Qur’ān and the influence of Muhammad, and traces the ways in which these sources have interacted historically to create Muslim theology and law as well as the alternative visions of Islam found in Shi’ism and Sufism.
Combining core source materials with coverage of current scholarship and of recent events in the Islamic world, Andrew Rippin introduces this hugely significant religion in a succinct, challenging and refreshing way. The improved and expanded fourth edition contains a new chapter on perceptions of Muslims today as well as a new series of text boxes to stimulate students’ thinking about essay topics and research projects. Using a distinctive critical approach that promotes engagement with key issues, from fundamentalism and women’s rights to problems of identity, Islamophobia and modernity, this text is ideal for today’s students.
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- Offers a survey of Islamic history and thought from the formative period of the religion.
- Examines the unique elements which have combined to form Islam.
- Traces the ways in which these ideas have interacted to influence Islam’s path to the present.
Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices provides an authoritative overview to both historical and contemporary issues when it comes to how Muslims have understood, interpreted and applied Islam. By its emphasis on complexity, source criticism and internal variations, the book provides a nuanced description that explains past and present developments, as well as dividing lines among Muslims. In this edition, Teresa Bernheimer has carefully revised and updated the late professor Andrew Rippin’s earlier editions. By addressing contemporary affairs and how Muslims are perceived in the twenty-first century, this book provides a user-friendly introduction to the study of Islam and its fascinating, but also very complex history.
--Göran Larsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
This fifth edition of Muslims continues to stand out due to its comprehensive coverage, critical historical perspective and attention to the dynamics of religious identity construction. It is gratifying to see the author’s legacy continue. Just the right amount of challenge for undergraduate students.
--F. Volker Greifenhagen, Luther College, University of Regina, Canada.
This book remains a valuable and unmatched contribution to the field, with chapters that offer thematic, chronologically-based overviews of the key developments in the faith, scholarship, and practice of Islam. It offers highly readable prose and substantive, probing coverage of key issues from medieval to contemporary times. Undergraduates will find it challenging but eye opening, graduate students and the interested general reader will find it thought-provoking and insightful, and even experts in the field will find their knowledge enhanced and amplified. A tour de force.
--Andrea L. Stanton, University of Denver, USA.
- Title: Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices
- Author: Andrew Rippin
- Edition: Fourth edition
- Series: The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices
- Publisher: Routledge
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 356
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Islam; Muslims; Islam › Doctrines; Islam › Customs and practices
- ISBNs: 9780415489393, 9780203805213, 0415489393, 0203805216
- Resource ID: LLS:MSLMSTHRBPRCTCS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-01-08T23:19:37Z