TY  - BOOK
AU  - Denny, Frederick M
AU  - Denny,Frederick M
TI  - Islam and the Muslim Community
SN  - 0060618752   
U1  - SS80 
PY  - 1987///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper Collins Publishers
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Editor`s foreword .........xi  Acknowledgments .........1  Historical chronology of islam ...........3  Map .........14  Chapter1. Introfuction : The islamic umma -A community defined by a history, a religious way and a culture ..........5  The Islamic religious way .........7  Islam and history ........8  Islam as orthoprax religion ..........11  The muslim world today : An overview ..........12  Islam as a history a religious way and a culture ..........15  Chapter II . The rise and historical development of Islam ............18  Arabia ........18  Muhammad : messenger of god and founder of the umma .............23  The caliphate ..........32  The ways in which Islam speed ...........37  Muslim political weakening and the rise of the west ............39
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