Essential Islam [[electronic resource] ] : a comprehensive guide to belief and practice / / Diane Morgan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456814103321
• Autore: Morgan Diane
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Santa Barbara, CA, : Praeger, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-34157-X; 9786612341571; 0-313-36026-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 297
• Soggetti: Islam; Islam - Doctrines; Islam - Customs and practices; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; Contents; Notes on Language and Orthography; Author's Note; Introduction and Background; Chapter 1 What Muslims Believe: Essential Articles of Faith; Chapter 2 Essential Elements of Islamic Practice; Chapter 3 Muhammad; Chapter 4 Islamic Law and Cultural Practices; Chapter 5 The Many Faces of Islam; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Essential Islam: A Comprehensive Guide to Belief and Practice is the ideal beginner's resource on the core elements of a faith that, like Christianity and Judaism, offers a guide to holy living and a path to salvation-one that like other world faiths has inspired peace and war, tolerance and brutality, enlightenment and abysmal ignorance.||Essential Islam offers an insightful, objective look at Islam from its inception to the present day, including a discussion of Islamic beliefs about God, history, warfare, marriage, the afterlife, and the relationship between Islam and other faiths. It is a