Islam in the World Today: A Handbook of Politics, Religion, Culture, and Society

Islam in the World Today: A Handbook of Politics, Religion, Culture, and Society

Islam in the World Today: A Handbook of Politics, Religion, Culture, and Society

Islam in the World Today: A Handbook of Politics, Religion, Culture, and Society

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Overview

Considered the most authoritative single-volume reference work on Islam in the contemporary world, the German-language Der Islam in der Gegenwart, currently in its fifth edition, offers a wealth of authoritative information on the religious, political, social, and cultural life of Islamic nations and of Islamic immigrant communities elsewhere. Now, Cornell University Press is making this invaluable resource accessible to English-language readers. More current than the latest German edition on which it is based, Islam in the World Today covers a comprehensive array of topics in concise essays by some of the world's leading experts on Islam, including:

• the history of Islam from the earliest years through the twentieth century, with particular attention to Sunni and Shi'i Islam and Islamic revival movements during the last three centuries;

• data on the advance of Islam along with current population statistics;

• Muslim ideas on modern economics, on social order, and on attempts to modernize Islamic law (shari'a) and apply it in contemporary Muslim societies;

• Islam in diaspora, especially the situation in Europe and America;

• secularism, democracy, and human rights; and

• women in Islam

Twenty-four essays are each devoted to a specific Muslim country or a country with significant Muslim minorities, spanning Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. Additional essays illuminate Islamic culture, exploring local traditions; the languages and dialects of Muslim peoples; and art, architecture, and literature. Detailed bibliographies and indexes ensure the book's usefulness as a reference work.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801445712
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 05/15/2010
Pages: 1136
Product dimensions: 6.60(w) x 9.30(h) x 2.60(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Werner Ende is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies at the University of Freiburg. Udo Steinbach is the former director of the German Institute of Middle East Studies, Hamburg.

What People are Saying About This

Dale F. Eickelman

Islam in the World Today offers a comprehensive and accessible point of departure for understanding the religion, culture, history, and politics of the Muslim majority world past and present. This admirable handbook—for over twenty-five years a standard in German—is now available in English. Reliably authoritative, it is also a very good read.

Fouad Ajami

The editors of the superb Islam in the World Today promise a 'handbook' on modern Islam and its peoples. What they have delivered is arguably the best single source on the world of Islam and its history and its modern condition. An indispensable guide navigated by two accomplished editors, and a group of outstanding contributors, it is a rich repository of knowledge about the doctrines and practice of Islam and its diversity and global spread.

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