The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies

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

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