Teresa Bernheimer is currently Gerda Henkel Fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, working on religious extremism in the early Islamic period.
Andrew Rippin was Professor of History and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, Canada, and among the foremost scholars of the Qur¿an.
Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices offers a survey of Islamic history and thought from the formative period of the religion to the contemporary period. Combining core source materials with coverage of current scholarship and of recent events in the Islamic world, Bernheimer and Rippin introduce this hugely significant religion, including alternative visions of Islam found in Shi'ism and Sufism, in a succinct, challenging way. The improved and expanded fifth edition is updated throughout and includes new textboxes.
List of Illustrations
Preface to the fifth edition
Introduction
Part I: Formative elements of classical Islam
1 Prehistory
2 The Quran
3 Müammad
Part II: Emergence of Islamic identity
4 Political action and theory
5 Theological exposition
6 Legal developments
7 Ritual practice
Part III: Alternative visions of classical Islamic identity
8 The Shi a
9 ¿ufi devotion
Part IV: Consolidation of Islamic identity
10 Intellectual culture
11 Medieval visions of Islam
Part V: Modern visions of Islam
12 Describing modernity
13 Müammad and modernity
14 The Quran and modernity
15 Issues of identity: ritual and politics
Part VI: Re-visioning Islam
16 Women, intellectuals, and other challenges
17 Perceptions of Muslims in the twenty-first century
Glossary
References
General index
Index of Qur¿an citations