Islam: The Religious and Political Life of a World Community

Marjorie Kelly

Bloomsbury Academic, Sep 15, 1984 - Religion - 321 pages

Written in straight-forward language by leading Islamic scholars, 14 essays cover the basics of Islamic faith and practice, the foundations of state and society, the early Muslim empires, Islamic universalism in the later Middle Ages, and the later Muslim empires.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Islam: The Religious and Political Life of a World Community; Praeger scientific; Praeger special studies
• Editor: Marjorie Kelly
• Contributor: Foreign Policy Association
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 1984
• ISBN: 0275916154, 9780275916152
• Length: 321 pages
• Subjects: Religion / General; Religion / History; Religion / Islam / General