{"product_id":"11536-discovering-islam","title":"Discovering Islam","description":"\u003cb\u003e Shipping Note: This item usually arrives at your doorstep in 10-15 days\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Akbar Ahmed\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2003\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 251\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8174362762\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIslam is often caricatured as aggressive and fanatical. This readable and wide ranging account balances that image, uncovers the roots of Islamic discontent and celebrates the sources of its strength.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow reissued with a new foreword, Discovering Islam is a classic account of how the history of Islam and its relations with the West have shaped Islamic society today. . From the four ideal Caliphs who succeeded the Prophet to the refugee camps of Peshawar, an objective picture emerges of the main features of Muslim history and the compulsions of Muslim society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR THE REVISED EDITION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a time of great international unrest in which the issue of faith has risen up the agenda for all of us, Professor Akbar Ahmed’s book Discovering Islam is essential reading for thinking people who wish to understand this great world religion. This is an incisive, intelligent book and I am delighted to commend it.\u003cbr\u003e-The Right Hon. George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is refreshing, if not unique, to find a thoughtful adherent taking seriously the hard questions posed by those outside Islam, dealing with them honestly and in the process making the spiritual truths of Islam so accessible.\u003cbr\u003e-Benjamin Ladner, President, American University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere has never been a greater need for understanding Islam, and no better source than Discovering Islam. Ahmed is truly the ambassador of Islam.\u003cbr\u003e-Professor Tamara Sonn, President, the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is no one better qualified by scholarship or academic experience than Akbar Ahmed to explain to the western world the teaching of Islam.\u003cbr\u003e-Lord Bernard Weatherill, former Speaker of the House of Commons, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface to the Revise Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Lawrence Rosen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION: DISCOVERING ISLAM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: THE PATTERN OF ISLAMIC HISTORY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMUSLIM IDEAL: HOLY BOOK AND PROPHET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA THEORY OF ISLAMIC HISTORY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIdeal caliphs\u003cbr\u003eArab dynasties: Umayyads and Abbasids\u003cbr\u003eThe flowering of Islamic civilization\u003cbr\u003eDecline and fall\u003cbr\u003eShias: revolution in the revolution\u003cbr\u003eMahdism and millenarian movements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GREAT MUSLIM EMPIRES: OTTOMANS, SAFFAVIDS AND MUGHALS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOttomans: facing Europe\u003cbr\u003eSaffavids: Shia state\u003cbr\u003eMughals: encounter with Hinduism\u003cbr\u003eObsession and synthesis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSUFIS AND SCHOLARS\u003cbr\u003eSufis, saints and mystics\u003cbr\u003eTwo scholars of Islam: Al Beruni and Ibn Khaldun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISLAM OF THE PERIPHERY\u003cbr\u003eOn the periphery\u003cbr\u003eThe Muslim minority in China\u003cbr\u003eMuslims in the USSR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUNDER EUROPEAN RULE: THE COLONIAL IMPACT ON MUSLIM SOCIETY\u003cbr\u003eThe disintegration of society\u003cbr\u003eThe myth of the noble savage: Muslim tribesman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO-CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM SOCIETY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRINCES AND PAUPERS: MUSLIM SOCIETIES IN SAUDI ARABIA AND SOUTH INDIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaudi Arabia: the reawakening of the peninsula\u003cbr\u003eThe Andalus syndrome in south India: a la recherché du temps perdu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMUSLIM SOCIETY TURNED INSIDE OUT: ETHNICITY, WOMEN AND REFUGEES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDubai chalo: ethnic encounters between Middle Eastern and South Asian Muslim societies\u003cbr\u003eMuslim women\u003cbr\u003eAfghan refuges: displacement and despair\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE RECONSTRUCTION OF MUSLIM THOUGHT\u003cbr\u003eContemporary Muslim scholarship\u003cbr\u003eCreating Islamic social sciences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONLY CONNECT\u003cbr\u003eAmerican society: Great Satan or paradise on earth?\u003cbr\u003eConnecting\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: the discovery of Islam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Muslim chronology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlossary of Islamic terminology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography: suggested readings \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Akbar Ahmed \/ Routledge \/ Paperback","offer_id":40785516167337,"sku":"11536","price":30.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/11536.jpg?v=1625523980","url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/de\/products\/11536-discovering-islam","provider":"The India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}