Islam in the World (Second Edition)

Ruthven, Malise; Malise Ruthven

ISBN 10: 0195138414 / ISBN 13: 9780195138412

Published by Oxford Univeristy Press, Oxford, England, New York, Toronto, Tokyo, et al., 1984

About this Item

471 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear and crisp pages. Pen markings throughout text. Slightly slanted spine.

Seller Inventory # 1iiEe0066

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Islam in the World (Second Edition)
• Publisher: Oxford Univeristy Press, Oxford, England, New York, Toronto, Tokyo, et al.
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195138414
• ISBN 13: 9780195138412
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Kathleen M. Lynch (Cover Design); Reza/Corbis Sygma (Cover Photo)
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion, Theology, Comparative Religion
  • Islamic Studies
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research

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Synopsis

This valuable introductory guide provides a complete and lively summary of Islam, one of the most worldly of the great religions, in which the quest for spiritual fulfillment is inevitably bound up with political aspirations. Malise Ruthven presents a full overview of the religion in its historical, geographic, and social settings.

For this revised and long-awaited second edition, Ruthven divides his original chapters into more accessible sub-sections and provides new headings. Also included is a new concluding chapter that focuses on women in Islam, the challenges Islam faces in today's climate of globalization, and the key developments in Islamic political history since 1984--an especially fertile period that has seen, among other things, the Taliban movement in Afghanistan and the controversial publication of Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Islam and the World, Second Edition likewise features a new preface, redrawn maps, updated data on population and dispersal, and a new chronology of events with genealogical charts.

About the Author

Malise Ruthven is a writer and consultant on Middle Eastern affairs. He lives in the United Kingdom.