Islam: Beliefs and Institutions

by H. Lammens

Overview

First Published in 1968. This works seeks to be neither controversial nor polemical, the author intends to present an entirely objective account of the beliefs and institutions of Islam. Lammens describes Hejaz as the cradle of Islam, where Western Arabia in its mountainous complexity holds as the primary focus in this title. Discussing Islam as having been formed by the evolution of thirteen centuries, the details supplied within enable the reader to extensively follow its historical development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138973367
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/03/2016
Series:	Islam and the Muslim World , #6
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

H. Lammens, Sir E. Denison Ross (Translator)

Table of Contents

Chapter I The Cradle of Islām: Pre-Islāmite Arabia; Chapter II Muhammad: The Founder of Islām; Chapter III The Qoran: The Sacred Book of Islām; Chapter IV The ‘Sunna’, or the Tradition of Islām; Chapter V Jurisprudence and the Law of Islām; Chapter VI Asceticism and Mysticism of Islām; Chapter VII The Sects of Islām; Chapter VIII Reformists and Modernists;