A comprehensive introduction to the faith and politics of Islam Today, 23 percent of the global population is Muslim, but ignorance and misinformation about Islam persist. In this fascinating and useful book, Perry Anderson interviews the noted scholar of Islam Suleiman Mourad about the Qurʾan and the history of the faith. Mourad elucidates the different stages in Islam’s development: the Qurʾan as scripture and the history of its codification; Muhammad and the significance of his Sunna and Hadith; the Sunni–Shiʿi split and the formation of various sects; the development of jihad; the transition to modernity and the challenges of reform; and the complexities of Islam in the modern world. He also looks at Wahhabism from its inception in the eighteenth century to its present-day position as the movement that galvanized modern Salafism and gave rise to militant Islam or jihadism. The Mosaic of Islam reveals both the richness and the fissures of the faith. It speaks of the different voices claiming to represent the religion and spans peaceful groups and manifestations as well as the bloody confrontations that disfigure the Middle East, such as the Saudi intervention in the Yemen and the collapse of Syria and Iraq.

The Mosaic of Islam: A Conversation with Perry Anderson

Politics & Social Sciences

Mourad, Suleiman

Social Sciences

Verso Books

This volume examines the process through which a historical character named al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī was transformed into a myth by several groups in medieval Islam. Al-Ḥasan lived in the city of Basra, southern Iraq, and was famed for his piety, which attracted to him a large number of disciples who went on to play important roles in the formation of several religious trends. The literary corpus (sayings, stories and letters) ascribed to him has been used as a window into early Islamic religious and intellectual thought. But as this study shows, this corpus was largely forged in different periods, in some cases even a thousand years after al-Ḥasan's death. It tells us more about the beliefs of those who forged the sayings, stories and letters rather than about al-Ḥasan's thought and time.

Early Islam Between Myth and History: Al-hasan Al-basri D. 110h/728ce and the Formation on His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, & Science)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Brill Academic Pub

The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology  provides an account of the preaching of a revitalized vision of jihad in Crusader-era Syria by Sunni scholars, including Ibn Askir, as a major propaganda tool of the Counter-Crusade and Sunni revival.

The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period: Ibn ʿasākir of Damascus (1105-1176) and His Age, with ... Jihad (Islamic History and Civilization)

History

Lindsay, James

Asia

BRILL

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