Introduction to Islam

London – New York, Routledge, 2021, x + 125 p.

Exploring complex relations between Muslim visions and critical stances, this textbook is a compact introduction to Islam, dealing with the origins of its forms, from early developments to contemporary issues, including religious principles, beliefs and practices. The author's innovative method considers the various opposing theories and approaches between the Islamic tradition and scholars of Islam. Each topic is accompanied by up-to-date bibliographical references and a list of titles for further study, while an exhaustive glossary includes the elementary notions to allow in-depth study. Part I outlines the two founding aspects, the Qur'an and the Prophet Muhammad, highlighting essential concepts, according to Islamic religious discourse and related critical issues. In Part II, the emergence of the religious themes that have characterised the formation of Islam are explored in terms of historical developments. Part III, on contemporary Islam, examines the growth of Islam between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern age. Advanced readers, already familiar with the elementary notions of Islam and religious studies will benefit from Islam that explores the development of religious discourse in a historical perspective. This unique textbook is a key resource for postgraduate researchers and academics interested in Islam, religion and the Middle East.

The article proposes a brief overview of the main Islamic doctrinal themes and religious rules. It examines the fundamental themes that define the essence of the Islamic faith (aqīdah) and, accordingly, religious sciences developed around them. It also analyzes the key aspects of Muslim ethos, managed mostly by what is called Sharī'a and which are incorporates in two main categories of norms and obligations: those which regard the cult (ibadāt) and those which establish the human condition within society (mu’āmalāt). Finally, the paper provides an overview of issue of religious authority in Islam, topic that generated countless doctrinal, ideological, political disputes inside the Muslim societies, until today.

The Norms Practiced by the muslims nowadays has become stange in the eyes of the world. This paper intend to explained briefly the basic teaching of Islam

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Islam is the world’s fastest growing faith but it is one of the least well understood. It traces its heritage from ancient Semitic sources through Judaism and Christianity, and is therefore part of the Abrahamic monotheistic tradition. Muslims believe that Muhammad was the last prophet in a line which includes Jesus, Moses and the other Judaic prophets whose exploits are recorded in the Torah and Bible. His message is therefore not essentially different to that of earlier prophets but a reminder of the original Abrahamic message corrupted over time by the practitioners of Judaism and Christianity. Muhammad received God’s message in a series of revelations in the early 7th century AD. These revelations in rhyming Arabic prose are gathered together in the Qur’an in order of length rather than the order that they were received. They include historical, legal, didactic and eschatological material which forms the basis for Islamic law and ritual practice. The relationship between prophet...

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Islam as a revealed religion with over a billion followers around the world is an important belief system that has a complex history of emergence and development. In the post-9/11 period that saw an increasing American engagement in the Middle East, the necessity to understand the different dynamics at work in the development of this religion cannot be overemphasized. In order to help you acquire familiarity with this religion, this course will have three parts, each highlighting different aspects of Islam. 1) Classical Islam: this part will provide a survey of Islam through scholarly lenses, historically unpacking the emergence of its belief system through the prophetic figure of Muhammad and its revealed scripture, the Qur'an. The emergence of the elementary grammar of this religion will be then read against the particular historical venue of its inception. This part will also highlight how the emerging belief system came to interact with, borrow from, and at times negate the existing socio-religious customs, how Islam came to develop a relationship with politics, and how early schisms further consolidated through time.

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