Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians - Electric Scotland

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CONTENTS
4. The Prince of Medina 68
The Medina Accords; The Practice of Islam; Muhammad
and the Jews; The Religion of Abraham; The Master of Medina
(624–628); Muhammad and the Jews (continued); The
Lord of Arabia (628–632); Muhammad and the Jews (concluded);
The Wives and Children of the Prophet; The Opening
of Mecca; Problems before and after Tabuk; The Last
Years (631–632); Collecting the Quran; The Arrangement
of the Suras
Muhammad and Jesus: An Essay in Comparison 96
5. The Muslim Scripture: The Quran 99
Scripture: A History; Three Sacred Books, Three Peoples of
the Book; On Tampering with Scripture; Who Wrote Scripture?;
A Different Book; The Other Scriptures; In the Silence
after the Seal; Unpacking the Word of God; The Quran Reads
Itself: Abrogation, Emendation, Elaboration?; The Miracle
of the Quran; History and Scripture; The “Occasions of
Revelation”; Plain and Allegorical Exegesis in Islam; The
Muslims Struggle with Revelation and Reason; Shiite Tafsir
6. The Umma, Allah’s Commonwealth 127
The Creation of the Umma; A Successor to the Prophet; Tensions
in the Community; Ali ibn Abi Talib (601–661); A
Disputed Succession; The Umayyads (661–750); The Shiite
Imamate; Sunnis and Shiites; The Hidden Imam; Political
Ismailism: The Fatimids; The Sultanate; The Ottomans and
a Universal Caliphate; The End of the Caliphate; Iran as a
Shiite State; The Shiite Ulama and the State; The Islamic Republic
of Iran
7. God’s Way: A Life and a Law for Muslims 156
Muhammad as Moral Exemplar; The Goods of This World;
The Tradition; God’s Way; Instruction from On High: The