By Jamal J. Elias
"This Is Islam presents common readers and scholars with a concise yet remarkably accomplished creation to Islam. it's a truly offered advisor that offers either a wide assessment and critical specifics in a manner that's effortless for either specialists and non-specialists to use."
--John Voll, professor of Islamic background and affiliate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal heart for Muslim-Christian realizing at Georgetown University
"It is essential for our colleges to coach what the faith of Islam is like and the way it is of the same opinion and differs from Judaism, Christianity and different international religions. this is often Islam serves that objective with calm, cool, short and authoritative motives of the Islamic faith and of Muslim societies with all their variations." --William McNeill, professor emeritus of background, college of Chicago; writer of the increase of the West (National e-book Award) and The Human Web
"When I first all started instructing Islam, I struggled to discover an impartial textual content that comprehensively coated either Islamic heritage and the idea procedure. this can be Islam bridges the space among a textbook account and a contemporary religions guide through impending the subject in a scholarly, but approachable demeanour. no matter if you're a first-year instructor or a veteran, i'm convinced that this publication should be an asset in your scholars' research of the interesting and intricate faith Islam." --Teachers' Preface from this can be Islam, Katherine L. Saffle, background corridor top tuition
“[A]n obtainable and succinct precis of the bigger volumes which are conventionally utilized in semester-long survey classes on Islam. even if utilizing this long-tested technique, Elias doesn't shrink back from the advanced matters inside of Islamic background, theology, and philosophy. He explains how many of the sects got here into lifestyles and brings up the advanced theological debates that proceed to persuade Islamic perspectives today.” --Nelly van Doorn-Harder in schooling approximately Asia
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