The essays in this volume deal with three fundamental problems in Islamic civilization; the growth among Muslims of a consciousness of belonging to a culture; the unity of Muslim civilization as expressed in literature, political thought, attitude to science and urban structure; and the interaction of Islam with other civilizations.

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Islamic TheologyINDEX
Words which with their synonyms appear too frequently are omitted from this index, such as God, Koran, Muhammad, Arab or Arabic, Persian or Iranian, Muslim, Western, Hellenistic or Greek, Christian.
abastos, 138 (n. 7)
Abbasid, 6, 10, 16, 18, 27, 34, 36 ff., 45 f., 52, 65, 109, 125, 144, 151, 239 ff.
⁽Abbâsiyya, 145
abdâl, 167 (n. 16)
⁽Abdâl⁽azîz Âl Su⁽ûd, 216; see also Ibn Su⁽üd
⁽Abdalḥamîd, 211
⁽Abdallâh ⁽Alî al-Qaṣîmî; see Qaṣîmî
⁽Abdallâh Marwârîd al-Bayâni, 158 (n. 33)
⁽Abdalqâhir al-Jurjânî, 29 (n. 4); see also Jurjânî
⁽Abdarraḥmân III, 145
⁽Abdarrâziq, ⁽Alî, 198-200
⁽Abdassalâm, 124/5 (n. 39)
al-⁽Abdî, 50 (n. 35)
⁽Abduh; see Muḥammad ⁽Abduh
Abel, 84
Abraham, 2, 93 (n. 17), 111
⁽Abs, 50 (n. 23)
Abû ⁽Abdallâh Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ⁽Aun, 123 (n. 14)
Abû ⁽Alî at-Tanûḫi; see Tanûḫi
Abû Bakr al-Qûmisî, 174
Abû Bakr ar-Râzî ; see Râzî
Abû Dulaf, 106
Abû Dulaf al-⁽Ijlî, 36, 42
Abû Hayyân at-Tauḥîdî, 27; see also Tauḥîdî
Abû ’l-⁽Alâ⁾ al-Ma⁽arrî, 41, 53 (n. 69), 78 (n. 8), 92 (n. 3)
Abû ’l-⁽Atâhiya, 51 (n. 40), 108
Abû Naṣr as-Sarrâj, 9
Abû Nuwâs, 35, 108, 214
Abû Tammâm, 34, 35, 37, 43, 47, 55 (n. 100), 125 (n. 40)
Abû Sa⁽îd b. abî ’l-gḪair, 166 (n. 11)
Abû Shukûlr of Balḫ, 179
Abû Ya...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- GROWTH
- III ARAB CULTURE
- EXPRESSIONS
- V THE SPIRIT OF ISLAM AS SHOWN IN ITS LITERATURE
- VI MUSLIM WORLD VIEW AND MUSLIM SCIENCE
- VII GOVERNMENT IN ISLAM
- VIII THE STRUCTURE OF THE MUSLIM TOWN
- ENCOUNTERS
- X FIRDAUSÎ’S CONCEPT OF HISTORY
- XI ATTEMPTS AT SELF-INTERPRETATION IN CONTEMPORARY ISLAM
- XII WESTERNIZATION IN ISLAM AND THE THEORY OF CULTURAL BORROWING
- INDEX
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