Muslim Identities

Aaron W. Hughes is the Dean's Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.

Preface to Second Edition
Introduction: Religious Studies and the Academic Study of Islam

Part I. Origins

Chapter 1. Arabia Prior to the Advent of Islam

Chapter 2. The Making of the Last Prophet

Chapter 3. The Quran: The Foundation

Part II. Identity Formations

Chapter 4. The Spread of Islam Beyond the Arabian Peninsula

Chapter 5. Early Sectarianism and the Formation of Shiʿism

Chapter 6. Legal Developments and the Gradual Emergence of Sunni Islam

Chapter 7. Sufism: The Mystical Strain in Islam

Part III. Beliefs and Practices

Chapter 8. The Maintenance of Muslim Identities: Beliefs and Schools

Chapter 9. The Performance of Muslim Identities

Part IV. Modern Variations

Chapter 10. Encounters with Modernity

Chapter 11. Constructing Muslim Women

Chapter 12. Islam and “the West”

Chapter 13. The Inconvenient Muslim: From Majority to Minority


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