Vision of Islam

Covering the four dimensions of Islam as outlined in the Hadith of Gabriel--practice, faith, spirituality, and the Islamic view of history--The Vision of Islam draws on the Koran, the sayings of the Prophet and the great authorities of the tradition. This clearly written book introduces the essentials of each dimension and then shows how each has been embodied in Islamic institutions throughout history.

Preface

ix

(5)

Introduction

xiv

The Koran

xiv

(5)

The Messenger of God

xix

(6)

The Hadith of Gabriel

xxv

(2)

Religion

xxvii

(5)

Three Dimensions of Islam

xxxii

(2)

Islamic Learning

xxxiv

(4)

A Fourth Dimension

xxxviii

PART I: Islam

1

(34)

The Word Islam

3

(5)

Chapter 1. The Five Pillars

8

(20)

Practice: Embodied Submission

8

(1)

The First Pillar: The Shahadah

9

(2)

The Second Pillar: Salat

11

(5)

The Third Pillar: Zakat

16

(1)

The Fourth Pillar: Fasting

17

(2)

The Fifth Pillar: Hajj

19

(1)

A Sixth Pillar? Jihad and Mujahada

20

(2)

The Shariah

22

(3)

Sin

25

(3)

Chapter 2. The Historical Embodiment of Islam

28

(7)

The Koran and the Sunna

28

(2)

The Madhhabs

30

(2)

Jurisprudence and Politics

32

(3)

PART II: Iman

35

(10)

Islam and Iman

37

(6)

The Three Principles

43

(2)

Chapter 3. Tawhid

45

(87)

The First Shahadah

45

(2)

God

47

(37)

Shirk

49

(3)

The Signs of God

52

(2)

Interpreting the Signs

54

(8)

Divine Names

58

(4)

Speech

62

(2)

Essence and Attributes

64

(3)

Mercy and Wrath

67

(1)

Nearness and Distance

68

(2)

Tanzih and Tashbih

70

(4)

Mercy's Precedence

74

(3)

Acts

77

(2)

The Unseen and the Visible

79

(1)

Heaven and Earth

80

(4)

Angels

84

(20)

God's Unseen Messengers

85

(2)

Light

87

(2)

Angelic Luminosity

89

(3)

Clay

92

(1)

Spirits and Bodies

93

(4)

Fire

97

(3)

Soul

100

(2)

Imagination

102

(1)

Summary

103

(1)

The Measuring Out

104

(28)

Creative Power

104

(4)

Good and Evil

108

(5)

Trial

111

(2)

Freedom

113

(4)

Creaturely Diversity

117

(3)

The Human Being

120

(4)

Servant and Vicegerent

124

(2)

The Merciful King

126

(2)

The Hierarchy of Creation

128

(4)

Chapter 4. Prophecy

132

(61)

The Message of the Prophets

132

(32)

The Second Shahadah

132

(1)

Prophet and Messenger

133

(1)

The Trust

134

(3)

Innate Human Nature

137

(2)

Adam and Iblis

139

(3)

The Fall

142

(2)

Heedlessness

144

(3)

Dhikr

147

(2)

Responding to the Signs of God

149

(2)

Guidance and Misguidance

151

(4)

Wrongdoing

155

(3)

God's Two Hands

158

(6)

Islam and Other Religions

164

(29)

The Universality and Particularity of Prophecy

164

(4)

Judaism and Christianity

168

(7)

The Koran

175

(6)

Names of the Koran

181

(3)

The Prophet Muhammad

184

(3)

Good News and Warning

187

(6)

Chapter 5. The Return

193

(43)

Stages of Life and Death

193

(20)

Life and Death

196

(1)

This World and the Next World

197

(3)

The Grave

200

(2)

The End of the World

202

(2)

The Resurrection

204

(7)

Hell and Paradise

211

(2)

The Unfolding of the Soul

213

(23)

Shaping the Divine Form

213

(3)

Imagination

216

(5)

The Dreamworld

221

(2)

The Barzakh

223

(3)

Meeting the Angels

226

(5)

Final Judgment

231

(5)

Chapter 6. The Intellectual Schools

236

(29)

The Expression of Faith in the Earliest Period

239

(3)

Kalam

242

(4)

Theoretical Sufism

246

(1)

Philosophy

247

(3)

The Two Poles of Understanding

250

(7)

Kalam's Rationality

257

(1)

Philosophy's Abstraction

258

(4)

Sufism's Vision

262

(3)

PART III: Ihsan

265

(54)

Chapter 7. The Koranic Roots of Ihsan

267

(28)

The Word Ihsan

267

(6)

Worship

273

(3)

Seeing God

276

(1)

Sincerity

277

(5)

God-wariness

282

(3)

Love

285

(3)

Wholesomeness

288

(7)

Chapter 8. The Historical Manifestations of Ihsan

295

(24)

Supplication

295

(3)

Art and Poetry

298

(6)

Practical Sufism

304

(5)

The Ethos of Love

309

(3)

The Embodiment of Spirit

312

(7)

PART IV: Islam in History

319

(18)

Chapter 9. History as Interpretation

321

(8)

Islamic Interpretation of the Past

324

(2)

The Marks of the End

326

(3)

Chapter 10. The Contemporary Situation

329

(8)

The Declining Fortunes of Islam

330

(2)

Reading the Signs of History

332

(5)

Select Glossary

337

(10)

Appendix: Sources of the Hadiths

347

(6)

Notes

353

(8)

Index

361

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