Islam : what non-Muslims should know /
Recent events have focused attention on Islam, the often- misunderstood faith of one billion people. Westerners are showing a new curiosity about Islam and other religions, in part, perhaps, because religion is arguably the single most important and volatile factor in geopolitics today. Islam needs...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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2016.
Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2016] |
Edition: | Revised & exapnded edition. |
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Islam is a diverse and complex faith
- 2. Islam is a religion of orthopraxy
- 3. Muslims respect Judaism and Christianity
- 4. There is no institutional hierarchy in Islam
- 5. There is no clear separation between religion and politics in Islam
- 6. Jihād does not only mean "holy war."