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Essential Islam: A Comprehensive Guide to Belief and Practice

By Diane Morgan

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
0313360251, 9780313360251
LCC
BP174 .M67 2009
Open Library ID
OL23632356M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
774 kB (792549 bytes)
Pages
263\297
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Essential Islam: A Comprehensive Guide to Belief and Practice is the ideal beginner's resource on the core elements of a faith that, like Christianity and Judaism, offers a guide to holy living and a path to salvation—one that like other world faiths has inspired peace and war, tolerance and brutality, enlightenment and abysmal ignorance.Essential Islam offers an insightful, objective look at Islam from its inception to the present day, including a discussion of Islamic beliefs about God, history, warfare, marriage, the afterlife, and the relationship between Islam and other faiths. It is a rich source for dispelling misconceptions—for example, only 10 percent of Muslims are Arabic, and only a quarter of those reside in the Middle East—and for understanding tensions between groups within and outside Islam. More importantly, it gives readers a portrait of Islam not as a religion of extremists, but as a dynamic living faith practiced by people of all kinds in virtually every corner of the world.

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