Ever since a group of people came into existence who called themselves Muslims and followed Islam, questions of what it means to be a member of this group - who is to be included/excluded and what the
Rippin (Islamic history, U. of Victoria, Canada) has reprinted 24 articles that focus on the critical category of what is and is not Islam. Within sections on theology, social sciences, religion, civi
Reflecting the diversity of Islam, this collection focuses on the presence of Muslims in countries outside the traditionally conceived heartlands of the Islamic world. The history of the arrival of Is
Reproduced from publication from the 1930s to the 1990s, 21 studies of the Muslim scripture reflect the legacies of two tendencies in European scholarship on it: polemic interpretations to aid refutat
A collection of previously published research from the 1950s through the 1990s, focusing on the formative period of Muslim tafs-ir . Topics include the beginnings of Qur'anic exegesis, old Muslim opp
