This text seeks to make the academic study of religion a more prominent consideration in the study of Islam than it has been in the past. Islamic Studies: A History of Religions Approach, Second Edition represents a substantial revision that has been both updated to reflect IslamUs rise in North America and the international media, and refocused to situate the study of Islam within the comparative study of religions.

Islamic Studies: A History of Religions Approach

Martin, Richard C.

Religion & Spirituality

Pearson College Div

Review 
"Rather than use the traditional textual and philological approach of scholars in Islamic studies, most of the essays employ the theoretical approach and insights of the science of religion to present selected aspects of Islam as they are experienced and lived. . . . A good contribution to this debate."— 
Religious Studies Review"Promises to shape the future field of discourse for those who work in this area."— 
Studies in Religion"Students of religion and of Islam will find this book of great value."— 
History of Religions"We have no other book like this in which twelve distinguished Islamicists, all of them trained in or familiar with religious studies, discuss thoroughly and intensively the problems arising from the attempts to approach Islamic materials from the perspectives of religious studies. . . . This book promises to shape the future field of discourse for those who work in this area."— 
Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses

Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies

University of Arizona Press

This clearly written text explores the rational theology of Islam, the conflict between the "defenders of God" and the "defenders of reason", and the controversy's historical roots.

Defenders of Reason in Islam: Mu'tazililism from Medieval School to Modern Symbol

Woodward, Mark

Atmaja, Dwi S.

Islam

Oneworld Publications

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