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The SAGE handbook of Islamic studies
- Title
- The SAGE handbook of Islamic studies / edited by Akbar S. Ahmed and Tamara Sonn.
- Publication
- Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2010.
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- Description
- xxii, 369 p.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- Edited by Akbar S. Ahmed and Tamara Sonn, this volume provides a concise introdution to Islamic studies.
- Alternative Title
- Islamic studies
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : current issues in Islamic studies / Laura Thomas -- Islam as a community of discourse and a world-system / John Obert Voll -- Islam, diaspora, and multiculturalism / Bryan S. Turner -- Andalusian jurist, Berber commander, and Mozarab rebel : understanding Iberia's Islamic experience / Camilo Gomez-Rivas -- The Qur'an / Qaiser Shahzad -- Islamic concepts of justice / Lawrence Rosen -- Islamic economics : salient features and a critical survey / S.M. Ghazanfar -- From madrasa to university : the challenges and formats of Islamic education / Dietrich Reetz -- Political philosophy and political thought in the medieval Arabic-Islamic tradition of the Middle East / Charles E. Butterworth -- Arabic-Islamic literature : continuities and transformations / Asma Afsaruddin -- Islamic art : visual manifestations of a faith and a culture / Walter Denny -- Women's agency in Muslim society / Amineh Ahmed -- Islam and democracy : is Turkey an exception or a role model? / Haldun Gülalp -- Islam in the West / Earle H. Waugh -- Shi'a Islam / Ayatollah Seyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad -- Doctrinal Sufism and theoretical gnosis / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Contemporary Sufism : Islam without borders / Robert Sampson.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-5311
- ISBN
- 9780761943259 (hbk.)
- 0761943250 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 624430629
- Title
- The SAGE handbook of Islamic studies / edited by Akbar S. Ahmed and Tamara Sonn.
- Imprint
- Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Ahmed, Akbar S.Sonn, Tamara, 1949-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-5311