Oxfords very short introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects from islam to sociology, politics to classics, and literary theory to history. Islam features widely in the news, often in its most militant versions, but few people in the nonmuslim world really understand the nature of islam. Malise ruthvens very short introduction offers an essential insight into issues such as why islam has such major divisions between movements such as the shiites, the sunnis, and the wahhabis, why the sharia islamic law is such an important. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked. Hajj is highly spiritual but at the same time highly social and universal activity of islam. Malise ruthvens very short introduction, offers essential insights into the big issues, provides fresh perspectives on contemporary questions, and guides us through the complex debates. This very short introduction provides a superb introduction to the major aspects of muhammads life and its importance, providing both muslim and western historical perspectives. This website is for people of various faiths who seek to understand islam and muslims. It covers all the key issues in theology, epistemology, metaphysics and ethics and political philosophy and has a truly impressive breadth for such a short book.
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A very short introduction provides a much needed discussion of islam s past, present, and future, and its place in modern world religions. But few people in the nonmuslim world really understand the nature of islam, both as ideology and religion. She contends that no religion is more feared and misunderstood by. The word islam is an arabic word which means submission to the will of god. Islam, a short history contains a firstclass 275entry. Malise ruthven teaches at the university of aberdeen in scotland.
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