ISLAM: HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES( PROF SARFARAZ SHAIKH, )

Although Islam is the youngest of the major world religions, with 1.2 billion followers, Is- lam is the second largest and fastest-growing religion in the world. The book provides an overview of the origins and development of classical Islam - its faith, community, institu- tions, sciences, and art. It also deals the histor- ic encounter of Islam and Christianity, critical to world history and to relations between the Muslim world and the West.