A Handbook of Islam: Abridged edition of 'The Religion of Islam'

A Handbook of Islam is an abridged edition of the work The Religion of Islam, a renowned research work first published in 1936, with sub-sequent editions published till the present time. The Religion of Islam is a comprehensive book which divides its extensive treatment of Islam into three parts: (1) the sources of Islam, (2) the principles or doctrines of Islam, and (3) the practices of Islam relating to both the spiritual and the material aspects of human life.

In this abridgment, discuss...