1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955691003321

Autore

Morgan Diane

Titolo

Essential Islam : a comprehensive guide to belief and practice / / Diane Morgan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : ABC-CLIO, , 2009

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023

ISBN

9798400647383

9786612341571

9781282341579

128234157X

9780313360268

031336026X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

297.5

Soggetti

Islam

Islam - Customs and practices

Islam - Doctrines

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 (p. 257-259) 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

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00187439

Autore

Katara, Pekka

Titolo

Suomalais-saksalainen sanakirja / Pekka Katara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Porvoo ; Helsinki, : Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö, 1964

Edizione

[4.]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 1359 p. ; 22 cm

Soggetti

Lingua finlandese - Lingua tedesca - Vocabolari

Lingua di pubblicazione

Finlandese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia