The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies is a comprehensive one volume reference guide to Islam and study in this area. A team of leading international scholars - Muslim and non-Muslim - cover important aspects of study in the field, providing readers with a complete and accessible source of information to the wide range of methodologies and theoretical principles involved. Presenting Islam as a variegated tradition, key essays from the contributors demonstrate how it is subject to different interpretations, with no single version privileged. In this volume, Islam is treated as a lived experience, not only as theoretical ideal or textual tradition.

Featuring a series of indispensable research tools, including a substantial A-Z of key terms and concepts, chronology and a detailed list of resources, this is the essential reference guide for anyone working in Islamic Studies.

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This excellent survey of current scholarship in the field of Islamic Studies will prove useful to college students and also to their professors. -- Martin Forward, Professor of Religion at Aurora University, Illinois, USA
VERDICT: An excellent overview for advanced students and scholars pursuing research in the field of Islamic studies. -- Amanda K. Sprochi, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia * Library Journal *

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Clinton Bennett teaches Religious Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA.