A Reader on classical Islam / [edited by] F.E. Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peters, F. E., Author.

Contributor:

Peters, F. E. (Francis E.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (437 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1994.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

To enable the reader to shape, or perhaps reshape, an understanding of the Islamic tradition, F. E. Peters skillfully combines extensive passages from Islamic texts with a fascinating commentary of his own. In so doing, he presents a substantial body of literary evidence that will enable the reader to grasp the bases of Muslim faith and, more, to get some sense of the breadth and depth of Islamic religious culture as a whole. The voices recorded here are those of Muslims engaged in discourse with their God and with each other--historians, lawyers, mystics, and theologians, from the earliest Companions of the Prophet Muhammad down to Ibn Rushd or "Averroes" (d. 1198), al-Nawawi (d. 1278), and Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406). These religious seekers lived in what has been called the "classical" period in the development of Islam, the era when the exemplary works of law and spirituality were written, texts of such universally acknowledged importance that subsequent generations of Muslims gratefully understood themselves as heirs to an enormously broad and rich legacy of meditation on God's Word. "Islam" is a word that seems simple to understand. It means "submission," and, more specifically in the context where it first and most familiarly appears, "submission to the will of God." That context is the Quran, the Sacred Book of the Muslims, from which flow the patterns of belief and practice that today claim the spiritual allegiance of hundreds of millions around the globe. By drawing on the works of the great masters--Islam in its own words--Peters enriches our understanding of the community of "those who have submitted" and their imposing religious and political culture, which is becoming ever more important to the West.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: A Primer on Islam

CHAPTER 1. The Past, Sacred and Profane

CHAPTER 2. The Life and Work of the Prophet

CHAPTER 3. The Community of Muslims

CHAPTER 4. The Word of God and Its Understanding

CHAPTER 5. The Quran, the Prophet, and the Law

CHAPTER 6. The Worship of God

CHAPTER 7. Saints and Mystics

CHAPTER 8. Islamic Theology

Sources Cited

Index

Notes:

"Selections ... almost all of them originally in Arabic"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-415) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9786612751882

9781400806188

1400806186

9781282751880

1282751883

9781400821181

1400821185

OCLC:

700688668