The Islamic Tradition

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The Islamic Tradition

• by Amir Hussain and Mahmoud M. Ayoub

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• Islam is the last of the three historic
  monotheistic faiths that arose in the Middle
  East, coming after Judaism and Christianity
• Its name means submission in Arabic and
  signifies the commitment of its adherents to live
  in total submission to God
• A person who professes Islam is called a Muslim
  (one who submits to God)

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• The Islamic scripture, the Quran, presents Islam
  as the universal and primordial faith of all the
  prophets from Adam to Muhammad and of all those
  who believe in God, the one sovereign Lord,
  creator, and sustainer of all things

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Origins

• The Life of Muhammad (570-632 CE)
• The First Muslim Community
• The Conversion of Mecca

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Crystallization

• Prophets and Messengers
• The Quran
• The Status of the Quran
• Compiling the Quran
• Quranic Commentary (Tafsir)
• The Quarans Concept of God
• Faith and Action

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• Religious Sciences
• The Sources of Islamic Law
• The Quran
• The Sunnah
• The Scope of Islamic Law
• Jurisprudence (fiqh)

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• Islamic Philosophy and Theology
• The Early Period
• The Flowering of Islamic Philosophy

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Differentiation

• Shiism
• Ashura
• Twelver or Imami Shiism
• Sevener of Ismaili Shiism
• Sufism The Mystical Tradition
• The Crystallization of Sufism
• Rumi
• Sufi Orders and Saints
• Devotional Practices

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The Spread of Islam

• North Africa
• Spain
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Iran and Central Asia
• The Turks
• China
• South Asia
• South East Asia

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Practice

• The Five Pillars of Islam
• Bearing Witness
• Prayer
• Almsgiving
• The Ramadan Fast
• Pilgrimage to Mecca

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Cultural Expressions

• Islamic Architecture
• Islamic Art

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Interaction and Adaptation

• Islam and Modernity
• Pre-modern Reform Movements
• Nineteenth-Century Revivalism
• Ahmadiyah
• Modernist Reformers
• The Indian Subcontinent

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• Muhammad Iqbal
• Twentieth-Century Secularism
• Twentieth-Century Islamic Revivalism
• Contemporary Revivalist Movements
• State Islam and the Islamic Revolution
• Islam in Western Europe

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• Islam in North America
• Women and the Family
• Islam and the Future