Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices

Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices offers a survey of Islamic history and thought from the formative period of the religion to the contemporary period. Combining core source materials with coverage of current scholarship and of recent events in the Islamic world, Bernheimer and Rippin introduce this hugely significant religion, including alternative visions of Islam found in Shi'ism and Sufism, in a succinct, challenging way. The improved and expanded fifth edition is updated throughout and includes new textboxes.

Author: Teresa Bernheimer,Andrew Rippin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/22/2018
Pages: 338
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781138219687

About the Author

Teresa Bernheimer is currently Gerda Henkel Fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, working on religious extremism in the early Islamic period.

Andrew Rippin was Professor of History and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, Canada, and among the foremost scholars of the Qurʾān.