MOHAMMEDANISM: An Historical Survey: 2nd Edition (Oxford GB 90)
by Gibb, H.A.R
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New York, NY: Galaxy Book/Oxford Univ Press, 1962. 2nd Edition, 7th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Bright, clean, AS NEW. Softcover/VG; sound w/edge edge & light surface soiling. Analitical study of the very meaning of Muslim faith, and, the repercussions in the Modern World. Original text written 1911 by orientalist D.S. Margoliouth (1858 - 1940); this is the 1967 reprint of the 2nd Edition including Pakistan as a newly emerged Muslim state. That "There is but one God and Mohammed is His Apostle", and, the legend that Islam was born of the desert persists among adherents --- but there also persists an equally powerful world "belief" it is an inferior religion weak in historicity & cultural debts. 208 pgs. 10 chapters: 1, The Expansion of Islam; 2, Mohammed; 3, The Koran; 4, Doctrine & Ritual in the Koran; 5, The Tradition of the Prophet; 6, The Shari'a; 7, Orthodoxy & Schism; 8, Sufism; 9, The Sufi Orders; and 10, Islam in the Modern World. Strong copy w/tired softcover.
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- Title
- MOHAMMEDANISM: An Historical Survey: 2nd Edition (Oxford GB 90)
- Author
- Gibb, H.A.R
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- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- 2nd Edition, 7th Printing
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- Paperback
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- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1962
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- Region/Muslim/Islam/History/Intellectual History
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