BP161.2.D46

- Part One: Religion and common life in the pre- islamic near east 1- Early Civilization: Egypt and mesopotamia 2- The Jews: Covenant and community with a God of history 3- Christianity: salvation as a universal mission 4- Pre- Islamic Arabia: beliefs, Values, way of life - Part Two: The Coming of Islam: the Prophet, his people, and God's Religion 5- Muhammad and the early Muslim community 6- The Arab conquests and Islamis rule: the struggle for unified Umma - Part Three: The Islamic Religious system 7- The basic beliefs and worship practices of Islam 8- The Nature and function of the Qur'an 9- The Prophet's Sunna as preserved in the Hadith 10- Muslim creed and theologies: their purposes and varieties 11- Law and the State in classical Islamic formulations - Part Four: The Sufi way of mysticim and fellowship 12- Islamic Mysticim and the disciplines of esteric piety 13- Masters and disciples: the forms and functions of Sufi orders - Part Five: Patterns of Islamic personal and communal life 14- The Islamic life cycle and the family 15- Ideals and realities of Islamic community Life - Part Six: Islam in the modern world 16- Major movements and trends in renewal and reform 17- Three forms of Islamic revival: "fundamentalism" feminism, and establishing the Umma in North America