To enable the reader to shape, or perhaps reshape, an
understanding of the Islamic tradition, F. E. Peters skillfully
combines extensive passages from Islamic texts with a fascinating
commentary of his own. In so doing, he presents a substantial body
of literary evidence that will enable the reader to grasp the bases
of Muslim faith and, more, to get some sense of the breadth and
depth of Islamic religious culture as a whole. The voices recorded
here are those of Muslims engaged in discourse with their God and
with each other--historians, lawyers, mystics, and theologians,
from the earliest Companions of the Prophet Muhammad down to Ibn
Rushd or "Averroes" (d. 1198), al-Nawawi (d. 1278), and Ibn Khaldun
(d. 1406). These religious seekers lived in what has been called
the "classical" period in the development of Islam, the era when
the exemplary works of law and spirituality were written, texts of
such universally acknowledged importance that subsequent
generations of Muslims gratefully understood themselves as heirs to
an enormously broad and rich legacy of meditation on God's
Word.
"Islam" is a word that seems simple to understand. It means
"submission," and, more specifically in the context where it first
and most familiarly appears, "submission to the will of God." That
context is the Quran, the Sacred Book of the Muslims, from which
flow the patterns of belief and practice that today claim the
spiritual allegiance of hundreds of millions around the globe. By
drawing on the works of the great masters--Islam in its own
words--Peters enriches our understanding of the community of "those
who have submitted" and their imposing religious and political
culture, which is becoming ever more important to the West.
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