Understanding Islam

Kumar, B. B.

Understanding Islam by B. B. Kumar - New Delhi Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd. 2018 - viii, 435p. ; 25 cm.

Includes annexures, glossary, bibliography and index.

BACKGROUND: The birthplace of Islam -- Glimpses of the pre-Islamic pagan culture of Arabia -- The Prophet's ancestors -- SOURCE MATERIAL FOR THE STUDY OF ISLAM: The Quran -- Hadith: the Islamic traditions -- Early historians of Islam and their works -- Biographies of the Prophet -- PRE-PROPHETIC PHASE: Birth and childhood of Prophet Muhammad -- Life of Prophet Muhammad: pre-prophetic phase -- The Prophet Muhammad and his family -- REVELATION, CALL AND PREACHING IN MECCA: The revelations -- Islam: the Meccan period -- Early converts to Islam -- MEDINAN PHASE: Medinan society before the Prophet's migration -- Migration and after -- Poverty to riches -- Prophet and the poets -- Muhammad and the hypocrites -- SOCIETY, POLITICS AND ECONOMY: Islamic identity -- Women in Islam -- Arab and Quraysh supremacy among the Muslims -- Terror: an instrument of Islamic war -- Dhimmis and dhimmitude -- Origin and growth of Islamic Arab empire -- Islamic economy -- ISLAM AND THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK: Islam and the 'People of the Book' -- Islam and the Jews -- Islam and Christianity in Arabia -- Destruction of the Jews -- The Massacre of Banu Qurayza -- PILLARS OF ISLAM: Prayer in Islam -- Zakat (Sadaqa) -- The pilgrimage (Hajj) -- Islamic Jihad -- THEOLOGY AND RELATED TOPICS: The faith (Iman) -- Islamic concept of the divine -- Islamic Prophetism -- Rival prophethood claims -- Life after death in Islam -- Purification -- Fasting (as-saum) in Islam -- THE EPILOGUE: Strength and weakness in Islam -- Islamic appropriation of Ka'ba and its worship

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Religion--Islam --Islamic doctrinal theology
History

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