The Early Development Of Mohammedanism - Softcover

David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596059397 ISBN 13: 9781596059399

Verlag: New Publisher, 2012

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Adapted from a series of lectures delivered at the University of London in 1913, this is a strikingly clearheaded and articulate discussion of one of the great faiths of the world from a historical and sociological perspective. Discover. . the Koran as the basis of Islam . the Koran as legal code . the status cults in the Islamic faith . the development of Islamic ethics . asceticism and pantheism in Islam . Islamic philosophy . and more. DAVID S. MARGOLIOUTH (1858-1940) was professor of Arabic at Oxford University. He is also the author of Muhammad and the Rise of Islam (1905).

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THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF MOHAMMEDANISM LECTURE I the koran as the basis of islam It is a noteworthy fact about the Mohammedan system that since the Migration it has demanded no qualifications for admission to its brotherhood. To those who are outside its pale it in theory offers no facilities whatever for the study of its nature ; a man must enroll himself as a member first, and then only may he learn what his obligations are. The Koran may not be sold to Unbelievers ; soldiers are advised not to take it with them into hostile territory for fear the Unbeliever should get hold of it; and many a copy bears upon it a warning to Unbelievers not to touch. Pious grammarians have refused to teach grammar to Jews or Christians, because the rules were apt to be illustrated by quotations from the sacred volume. The Unbeliever is by one of the codes 1 forbidden to enter a mosque; and even when 1 Malik. See Baidawi i. 10, 12. 1 1

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; LECTURE PAGE; I THE KORAN AS THE BASIS OF ISLAM 1; II THE SAME CONTINUED 36; III THE LEGAL SUPPLEMENT 65; IV THE STATUS OF THE TOLERATED CULTS 99; V THE DEVELOPMENT OF MOHAMMEDAN; ETHICS 135; VI ASCETICISM LEADING TO PANTHEISM 167; VII THE PHILOSOPHICAL SUPPLEMENT 201; VIII THE HISTORICAL SUPPLEMENT 230; INDEX 259

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• Verlag: New Publisher
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1596059397
• ISBN 13: 9781596059399
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1