Historical dictionary of Islam
There is both unity and variety in the Islamic world. Muslims are not a homogeneous people who can be explained solely by their normative texts: the Koran and the Sunnah. Muslims differ vastly in their interpretation of Islam: modernists want to reinterpret Islam to adapt to the requirements of modern times while traditionalists tend to look to the classical and medieval periods of Islam as their model of the Islamic state. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Islam presents a conciseoverview of Islamic history, religion, philosophy, and Islamic political movements. This is done
eBook, English, 2009
2nd ed
Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md., 2009