Heart of Islam, The: Enduring Values for Humanity

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1. ONE GOD, MANY PROPHETS: The Unity of Truth and the Multiplicity of Revelations......Page 12
GOD THE ONE......Page 14
CREATION OF THE WORLDAND OF HUMAN BEINGS......Page 20
MANY REVELATIONS, MANY PROPHETS......Page 26
THE QURAN......Page 33
THE PROPHET OF ISLAM......Page 38
ISLAM’S ATTITUDE TOWARDOTHER RELIGIONS IN HISTORY......Page 50
WHO IS A BELIEVERAND WHO IS AN INFIDEL?......Page 53
ISLAM AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM TODAY......Page 57
2. THE SPECTRUM OF ISLAM: Sunnism, Shı'ism, and Sufism and Traditional, Modernist, and “Fundamentalist” Interpretations of Islam Today......Page 66
ISLAMIC PATTERNS......Page 68
FACTORS THAT CREATE UNITY......Page 69
SOURCES OF DIVERSITY:THE HIERARCHICAL LEVELS OF MEANINGAND INTERPRETATION OF THE TRADITION......Page 70
SUNNISM AND SHI ¯ ‘ISM AND THEIR BRANCHES......Page 76
RELIGIOUS SECTSWITHIN THE ISLAMIC WORLD......Page 87
INTELLECTUAL ANDTHEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY......Page 91
THE QUESTION OF ORTHODOXYAND HETERODOXY......Page 95
CULTURAL ZONES IN ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION......Page 98
TRADITIONAL, MODERNIST, AND“FUNDAMENTALIST” INTERPRETATIONSOF ISLAM TODAY......Page 111
3. DIVINE AND HUMAN LAWS......Page 124
THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW IN ISLAM......Page 126
THE SOURCES OF THE SHARI¯‘AH AND THEMETHODOLOGY OF ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE......Page 131
TO WHOM DOES THE SHARI¯‘AH APPLY?......Page 135
CATEGORIES OF ACTIONS AND VALUES......Page 137
THE CONTENT OF THE SHARI¯‘AH:ACTS OF WORSHIP AND TRANSACTIONS......Page 140
PUNISHMENTS ANDRESTRICTIVE ORDINANCES......Page 162
DIVINE AND HUMAN LAWS:CRISIS AND CONFRONTATION TODAY......Page 165
THE DIVINE LAW, ETHICS,AND THE RELIGIOUS ETHOS......Page 166
4. DIVINE AND HUMAN JUSTICE: Peace and the Question of War......Page 168
THE CONCEPT OF COMMUNITY......Page 170
DAR AL-ISLAM AND DAR AL-HARB......Page 174
MUSLIM MINORITIES......Page 176
MINORITIES WITHIN THE “ABODE OF ISLAM”......Page 177
ISLAMIC SOCIETY: THE IDEALAND THE PRACTICE OF THE GOOD LIFE......Page 179
THE STRUCTURE OF ISLAMIC SOCIETY......Page 183
ISLAM AND SLAVERY......Page 192
THE FAMILY WITHIN ISLAMIC SOCIETY......Page 194
THE MALE AND FEMALEIN THE ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE......Page 199
WOMEN IN THE FAMILY AND IN SOCIETY......Page 200
ISLAM AND THE INTEGRATION OF SOCIETY......Page 208
5. COMPASSION AND LOVE,PEACE AND BEAUTY......Page 212
COMPASSION, LOVE, PEACE,AND BEAUTY AS DIVINE QUALITIES......Page 214
COMPASSION AND MERCY......Page 215
LOVE......Page 220
PEACE......Page 226
BEAUTY......Page 233
THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCEOF ISLAMIC ART......Page 238
IHSAN: VIRTUOUS BEAUTY, BEAUTIFUL VIRTUE......Page 246
6. DIVINE AND HUMAN JUSTICE: Peace and the Question of War......Page 248
THE INNATE HUMAN SENSE OF JUSTICEAND THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE......Page 250
DIVINE JUSTICE......Page 251
THE BALANCE......Page 254
ISLAMIC ESCHATOLOGICAL DOCTRINES......Page 255
JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD: THE VIEWS OF ‘ALI......Page 259
HUMAN JUSTICE AND ITS MODES......Page 263
JIHAD......Page 267
CONDITIONS UNDER WHICHWAR CAN BE FOUGHT......Page 277
MARTYRDOM......Page 279
TO ESTABLISH JUSTICE AND PEACE......Page 283
7. HUMAN RESPONSIBILITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 284
TO BE HUMAN......Page 286
HUMAN RESPONSIBILITIES......Page 288
HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 292
FREEDOM FROM RELIGIONVERSUS FREEDOM OF RELIGION......Page 301
CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM RESPONSES TO THEISSUE OF FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 307
THE 303 HUMAN CONDITION AND THE ROLEOF ISLAM......Page 310
Epilogue: THE ETHICAL AND SPIRITUAL NATURE OF HUMAN LIFE, EAST AND WEST......Page 318
E-book Afterword: CIVILIZATIONAL DIALOGUE AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD......Page 328
Notes......Page 346
Bibliography......Page 348