To enable the reader to shape, or perhaps reshape, an understanding of
the Islamic tradition, F. E. Peters skillfully combines extensive
passages from Islamic texts with a fascinating commentary of his own.
In so doing, he presents a substantial body of literary evidence that
will enable the reader to grasp the bases of Muslim faith and, more,
to get some sense of the breadth and depth of Islamic religious
culture as a whole. The voices recorded here are those of Muslims
engaged in discourse with their God and with each other--historians,
lawyers, mystics, and theologians, from the earliest Companions of the
Prophet Muhammad down to Ibn Rushd or "Averroes" (d. 1198), al-Nawawi
(d. 1278), and Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406). These religious seekers lived in
what has been called the "classical" period in the development of
Islam, the era when the exemplary works of law and spirituality were
written, texts of such universally acknowledged importance that
subsequent generations of Muslims gratefully understood themselves as
heirs to an enormously broad and rich legacy of meditation on God's
Word. "Islam" is a word that seems simple to understand. It means
"submission," and, more specifically in the context where it first and
most familiarly appears, "submission to the will of God." That context
is the Quran, the Sacred Book of the Muslims, from which flow the
patterns of belief and practice that today claim the spiritual
allegiance of hundreds of millions around the globe. By drawing on the
works of the great masters--Islam in its own words--Peters enriches
our understanding of the community of "those who have submitted" and
their imposing religious and political culture, which is becoming ever
more important to the West.
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9781400821181
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2013
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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