On understanding Islam : selected studies / Wilfred Cantwell Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Wilfred Cantwell, 1916-2000.

Series:

Religion and Reason; 19

Religion and reason ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 351 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

The Hague ; New York : Mouton, c1981.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Contents:

Front matter

General Editor's Preface

Preface

Contents

General Introduction

PART ONE: General Presentations

1. Islamic History as a Concept

2. The Shahādah as Symbolic Representation of Muslims' Faith

PART TWO: Specific Presentations

3. The Historical Development in Islām of the Concept of Islām as an Historical Development

4. Islamic Law: Its 'Sources' (Uṣūl al-fiqh) and Ijtihād

5. Islamic Law: Sharīʿah and Sharʿ

6. Faith, in the Qur'ān; and its Relation to Belief

7. Faith, in Later Islamic History; the Meaning of Taṣdīq

8. Faith, in Later Islamic History; the Meaning of Arkān

PART THREE: Islam in the Indian Context; and Muslim-Hindu Relations

9. The Crystallization of Religious Communities in Mughul India

10. The ʿUlamā̕ in Indian Politics

11: Aligarh and Religion: A Question

12. Religious Diversity: Muslim-Hindū Relations in India

PART FOUR: Muslim-Christian Relations

13. Some Similarities and Some Differences Between Christianity and Islām

14. Muslim-Christian Interrelations Historically: An Interpretation

15. Muslim and Christian: Faith Convergence, Belief Divergence

16. Is the Qur'ān the Word of God?

Notes

Publications of Wilfred Cantwell Smith

Selective Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110825800

3110825805

OCLC:

922945501