Understanding Islam and the Muslims
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About The Book
Myths and misunderstanding continue to proliferate about Islam and its millions of followers worldwide. Through stunning photography provided by ARAMCO World and an accessible question and answer
Written by eminent scholars T.J. Winter, Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge University, and John A. Williams of the College of William and Mary’s Department of Religion, this new version of a classic work is unique in that it has the endorsement of Al Azhar University of Cairo, which has been the center of Islamic study for the entire Muslim world since 969 C.E.
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“Through its text and photographs, this book seeks to replace inaccurate images of Islam with recognition of the multi-faceted character of this global religion and its widely diverse adherents. It cannot be reduced to stereotypes. Islam is not inherently violent, nor are Muslims intrinsically prone to violence.”
- Bruce B. Lawrence, Professor of Islamic Studies, Duke University
“A much welcome contribution-an accurate and scholarly presentation of the Islamic faith. Having carefully reviewed the contents, I find there is nothing to add. The Ministry of Islamic Endowments intends to make this reliable resource available on its website.”
- Dr. Ali Jum’a
(Dir. of the Azhar Mosque and Imam at the Sultan Hasan Mosque Advisor to the Minister of Islamic Endowments, Cairo)
“The most user-friendly introduction to the basics of Islam today. It’s compact enough to make it an ideal choice for workshops and discussion groups.”
- Dick Doughty, Assistant Editor Saudi Aramco World
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About the authors
Abdal Hakim Murad: Abdal Hakim Murad is the Muslim name of Timothy Winter, a British scholar, translator, and academic born in 1960 CE. He embraced Islam in 1979 and graduated with a double-first in Arabic from Pembroke College, Cambridge, before studying at al-Azhar University in Cairo and pursuing further traditional learning with scholars in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, later adding Turkish and Persian in London. He is Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College, which he helped open in 2009 to train imams and scholars in Britain, and serves as the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in Theology at Wolfson College. He was a driving figure behind the Cambridge Central Mosque, one of Europe's first purpose-built ecological mosques. Rooted in the Ashʿari and Maturidi theological tradition and the spirituality of tasawwuf, he is widely read for his translations from al-Ghazali's Ihyaʾ ʿUlum al-Din, among them the book on the remembrance of death and the afterlife, and for works such as Understanding Islam and the Muslims and his essays gathered in Travelling Home. He edited The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology and received the King Abdullah I Prize for Islamic Thought. Listed among the most influential Muslims in the world, he is esteemed for joining deep traditional learning to a thoughtful engagement with contemporary Western life.
John Alden Williams: John Alden Williams is a retired Professor of Humanities and Religion at the College of William and Mary. He previously taught Islamic Studies at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. His scholarly career has been devoted to Islamic studies, and he is the author of Understanding Islam and the Muslims, a work offering an introduction to the faith and its adherents for a general readership. The available source material on Williams is limited to these details; additional biographical facts are not confirmed by the current internal sources.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781887752473
Publisher
Fons Vitae
Author
Abdal Hakim Murad and John Alden Williams
Pages
96
Year Published
2002
Size
W-5.5 in | H-8.2 in | D-0.3 in
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