Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Part I: Introduction (Clinton Bennett, Professor Islamic Studies, SUNY, USA) Part II: Research Methods and Problems (Elliott Bazzano, Researcher) Part III: Current Research and Issues 1.Quranic Studies (Andrew Rippin, Professor of History, University of Victoria, Canada) 2. Hadith Studies (Aisha Y. Musa, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Colgate University, USA) 3. Researching Sufism in the 21st Century: Expanding the Context of Inquiry (Arthur F Buehler, Senior Lecturer at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand) 4. Islamic Theology (Mashhad Al-Allaf, Research Fellow, Cambridge University, UK) 5. Study of Shi ‘ite Islam Syed Rizwan Zamir, Assistant Professor of Religion, Davidson College, USA) 6. Salafi Islam: The Study of Contemporary Religious-Political Movements William Shepard 7. Islam and the West (William Shepard, Researcher) 8. Fiqh, The Science of Islamic Jurisprudence Maria Curtis (Assistant professor of Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Houston, USA) 9. From Margin to Mainstream: The History of Islamic Art and Architecture in the Twenty- First Century (Jaclynne J. Kerner, Assistant Professor of Art History, SUNY, USA) Part IV: New Directions: The who, why, what, how and where of Studying Islam Part V: Chronology Part VI: Resources: An Annotated Bibliographical Guide Part VII: A-Z Index of Key Terms and Concepts References Index

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A practical advanced resources for students in Islamic and Religious Studies, written and edited by an international team of leading scholars.

About the Author

Clinton Bennett teaches Religious Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA.

Reviews

This excellent survey of current scholarship in the field of Islamic Studies will prove useful to college students and also to their professors.
*Martin Forward, Professor of Religion at Aurora University, Illinois, USA*

VERDICT: An excellent overview for advanced students and scholars pursuing research in the field of Islamic studies.
*Library Journal*

Bennett's superb opening essay delineates the history of Islamic studies from medieval translations and polemics to today's complex, multifaceted discipline...Readers will find useful gems, e.g., a straightforward academic guide to traditional hadith science, ways to analyze a kalam argument, and hypotheses about why Qur'an, Sufi studies, and other subfields today are distinct from previous generations...Written for graduate studies, this book will also be useful for faculty mentoring them or merely keeping up with multiple facets of the field. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and above.
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