This timely and stimulating Handbook, edited by world-class experts in the field, provides a comprehensive guide to Islamic Studies today.

Table of Contents

• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Current Issues in Islamic Studies - Laura Thomas
• PART 1 Islam and Multiculturalism
• 1 Islam as a Community of Discourse and a World-System - John Obert Voll
• 2 Islam, Diaspora, and Multiculturalism - Bryan S. Turner
• 3 Andalusian Jurist, Berber Commander, and Mozarab Rebel: Understanding Iberia's Islamic Experience - Camilo Gomez-Rivas
• PART 2 Foundations of Islam
• 4 The Qur'an - Qaiser Shahzad
• 5 Islamic Concepts of Justice - Lawrence Rosen
• 6 Islamic Economics: Salient Features and a Critical Survey - S.M. Ghazanfar
• 7 From Madrasa to University-the Challenges and Formats of Islamic Education - Dietrich Reetz
• 8 Political Philosophy and Political thought in the Medieval Arabic-Islamic Tradition of the Middle East - Charles E. Butterworth
• PART 3 Culture of Islam
• 9 Arabic-Islamic Literature: Continuities and Transformations - Asma Afsaruddin
• 10 Islamic Art: Visual Manifestations of a Faith and a Culture - Walter Denny
• PART 4 Contemporary Issues in Islam
• 11 Women's Agency in Muslim Society - Amineh Ahmed
• 12 Islam and Democracy: Is Turkey an Exception or a Role Model? - Haldun Gülalp
• 13 Islam in the West - Earle H. Waugh
• PART 5 Diversity within Islam
• 14 Shi'a Islam - Ayatollah Seyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad
• 15 Doctrinal Sufism and Theoretical Gnosis - Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• 16 Contemporary Sufism: Islam without Borders - Robert Sampson