Böcker i Routledge Library Editions: Islam-serien i ordning

Discusses the Islamic faith from various historical and contemporary perspectives. This work examines what its similarities with Christianity and Judaism are and explains the essential elements of Islam. It also includes works by A J Arberry, Kenneth Cragg, Elie Kedourie, and Frithjof Schuon.

Contains works by J N D Anderson, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Austin Kennett, Henri Lammens, and Alexander Russell.

Discussing the history and civilization of Islam from its origins until the late twentieth century, this set examines the political and cultural development of Islam as well as Islamic sexuality, philosophy, and medicine. It also includes works by Akbar Ahmed, A J Arberry, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Muhammad Salim Khan, Henri Pirenne, and A S Tritton.

Examining the nature and growth of the cultural tradition of Islam, this set covers Islamic life and thought, the role of the Prophet, prophecy in Islam, the Crusades and problems of the twentieth century Arab world. It also includes works by G E von Grunebaum, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, F Rahman, and A J Wensinck.

Sufism, the mystical movement within Islam, has, in a thousand years of history influenced the life, art and literature of the Muslim peoples. It has supplied the element of personal devotion and direct apprehension of Divine Realities. This set includes works by A J Arberry, Henry Corbin, Rom Landau, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

Consists of biographical sketches of some of the contemplatives and spiritual masters.