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

• Autore: Morgan Diane
• Pubblicazione: Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : ABC-CLIO, , 2009; New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 297.5
• Soggetto topico: Islam; Islam - Customs and practices; Islam - Doctrines
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Essential Islam
• ISBN: 979-84-00-64738-3; 1-282-34157-X; 9786612341571; 0-313-36026-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807604403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II