Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians - Electric Scotland

CONTENTS t ix
Prophetic Reports; From Prophetic Tradition to Law; A
Growth Industry; A Skeptical Reaction; Islamic Justice: The
Qadi; Islamic Morality and Islamic Jurisprudence; A Society
of Law—and Lawyers; Judgments and Opinions; Priests and
Rabbis; Jewish Rabbis and Islamic Ulama: A Comparison
with a Difference; The Schools; Ijtihad; The Closing of the
Gate; Consensus on Moral Matters
8. Defining and Defending the Community
of Believers 186
Identity Markers; Building the Umma: Conversion; The
Making of a Muslim; An Arab, and Arabic, Islam; “There Is
No Coercion in Religion”; Dhimma and Dhimmis; The Millet
System; Defining the Truth; The Umma Divided: Early
Muslim Sects and Sectarianism; Innovation and Heresy;
Sunnis and Shiites; The Enemy Without: Jihad; Just Wars
and Crusades; The Enemy Within: Ibn Taymiyya; Fundamentalists
As the Faithful Remnant
9. The Worshipful Acts 216
To Be a Muslim; Women in the Ritual Life of Islam; Muslim
Prayer; Friday Prayer and the Mosque; The Hajj; To Mount
Arafat and Back; Intercalation Prohibited; The Enshrinement
of Jerusalem; The Distant Shrine; The Christian Assault
on Jerusalem; Muslim Jerusalem in the Middle Ages;
The Pious Visit al-Quds; Muslim Devotions; The Friends of
God; The Passion and the Death of Husayn; Islam and the
Graven Image; The Word as Decoration
10. This World and the Next 245
The Beginnings of Muslim Asceticism; The Sufi Way; The
Path to God; Salvation; The End and What Follows; End
Time Scenarios; The Muslim Dead; The Cosmology of the
Other World; A Heavenly Journey; The Quranic Eschaton;
Intercession in Islam; The Vision of God and Other Rewards