PART ONE    Religion and Common Life in the Pre-Islamic Near East

    Chapter 1    Early Civilizations and the Origins of Judaism and Christianity

    Chapter 2    Pre-Islamic Arabia: Beliefs, Values, Way of Life

 PART TWO    The Coming of Islam: The Prophet, His People, and God's Religion

    Chapter 3    Muhammad and the Early Muslim Community

    Chapter 4    The Arab Conquests and Islamic Rule: The Stuggle for a Unified Umma

PART THREE    The Islamic Religious System

    Chapter 5    The Basic Beliefs and Worship Practices of Islam

    Chapter 6    The Nature and Function of the Qur'an

    Chapter 7    The Prophet's Sunna as Preserved in the Hadith

    Chapter 8    Muslim Creeds and Theologies: Their Purposes and Varieties

    Chapter 9    Law and the State in Classical Islamic Formulations

PART FOUR    The Sufi Way of Mysticism and Fellowship

    Chapter 10    Islamic Mysticism and the Disciplines of Exoteric Piety

    Chapter 11    Masters and Disciples: The Forms and Functions of Sufi Orders

PART FIVE    Patterns of Islamic Personal and Communal Life

    Chapter 12    The Islamic Life Cycle and the Family

    Chapter 13    Ideals and Realities of Islamic Community Life

PART SIX    Islam in the Modern World

    Chapter 14    Major Movements and Trends in Renewal and Reform

    Chapter 15    Three Forms of Islamic Revival: \"Fundamentalism,\" Feminism, and Establishing the Umma in North America

    Chapter 16    Whither Islam and the Muslims? Progressive Muslims with a Vision of an \"Islam without Borders\"

Suggestions for Further Reading

Glossary

Acknowlegements

Index\n

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