The challenge of Islam
Subtitle: the prophetic tradition : lectures, 1981
By: Norman O. Brown ; introduction by Jay Cantor ; edited by Jerome Neu ; transcription by Mathew E. Simpson.
Contributors: Cantor, Jay.; Neu, Jerome.; Simpson, Mathew E.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Subjects: Islam; Islam -- Relations
Table of contents: title: Lecture 1. Universal history with cosmopolitan intent; title: Lecture 2. Islam and Judaism (Ebionism); title: Lecture 3. Islam and Christianity (Docetism); title: Lecture 4. The book; title: Lecture 5. The succession (Sunnī and Shī'ite); title: Lecture 6. Revolutionary Islam; title: Lecture 7. Mystic Islam; title: The essential books; title: Appendix. Shī'ite Islam: the politics of gnosticism.