Mohammed and Islam / / Ignaz Goldziher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Goldziher, Ignaz,
• MitwirkendeR: Jastrow, Morris,; Pratt, Douglas,; Seelye, Kate,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Exploring the House of Islam: Perceptions of Islam in the Period of Western Ascendancy 1800-1945
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (394 p.)

Ignaz Goldziher was a pre-eminent scholar of Islam during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book encapsulates his own lifetime of work and provides something of an historical commentary on his epoch in the Western academic study of Islam. One of its strengths is that Goldziher’s investigation of historical development probes into underlying religious motivations and allied theological issues. The book quickly became a classic of its day. It remains a classic that, in our day, is well worth re-visiting as it can still inform our understanding of contemporary Islam, whose roots lie in all that Goldziher covers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- SERIES FOREWORD EXPLORING THE HOUSE OF ISLAM: PERCEPTIONS OF ISLAM IN THE PERIOD OF WESTERN ASCENDANCY 1800-1945 -- REFERENCES -- IGNAZ GOLDZIHER, MOHAMMED AND ISLAM -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I. MOHAMMED AND ISLAM -- CHAPTER II. THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAW -- CHAPTER III. DOGMATIC DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER IV. ASCETICISM AND ȘŪFĪISM -- CHAPTER V. MOHAMMEDAN SECTS -- CHAPTER VI. LATER DEVELOPMENTS -- INDEX