Author: Syed Mahmudunnasir
Publisher: Kitab Bhavan
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 424
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171510515
Description
This book, explaining basic principles of Islam, attempts to show how the Qur'anic teachings and traditions can apply even to the life of the most modern Muslim today.
This book consists of four parts. The first part deals with the Basic principles of Islam in four chapters. Here the essentials of Islam are fully explained.
In the second part the author traces the history of Islam and its followers right from the birth of Prophet Mohammad up o date. He gives a complete account of Muslim rule in Arabic and in other pats of the world, which shows the rise and fall of Muslim Rule through the centuries of Hijra.
The third pa is devoted to the Holy Qur'an and its teachings and in the fourth chapter, the author writes about the application of Islamic teaching to the socio-economic development in the 20th century.
Contents
PART I
BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ISLAM
CHAPTER I
The Articles of faith
CHAPTER II
The Concept and Spirity of Tauheed
CHAPTER III
Finality of the Prophethood
CHAPTER IV
Practices of Islam
PART 2
OUTLINE OF ISLAMIC HISTORY
CHAPTER I
The Holy Prophet of Islam
CHAPTER II
The Period of Khulfa-I-Rashideen
CHAPTER III
The Period of Umayyads
CHAPTER IV
The Period of Abbasids
CHAPTER V
Muslims in Spain and North Africa
CHAPTER VI
Post-Mongol Muslim Period
PART 3
THE HOLY QURAN
CHAPTER I
Its revelation and compilation
CHAPTER II
Certain basic principles
CHAPTER III
Certain injuctions
PART 4
THE APPLICATION OF ISLAMIC TEACHINGS TO SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE 20th CENTURY