Islam
Subtitle: past, present and future
By: Hans Küng ; translated by John Bowden
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 767
ISBN-13: 9781851686124
Subjects: History; Christianity and other religions; Islam; Interfaith relations; Relations; Christianity
Work titles: Islam
Description: Giving an overview of Islam's 1400 year history, this work examines its fundamental beliefs and practices, outlines the major schools of thought, and surveys the positions of Islam on various questions.
Notes: Originally published in German as Der Islam: Geschichte, Gegenwart, Zukunft in 2004 by Piper Verlag, Munich.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 663-741) and index.
Table of contents: title: Origin --; title: Controversial religion --; title: Problems of the beginning --; title: Centre --; title: God's word has become a book --; title: Central message --; title: Central structural elements --; title: History --; title: Original paradigm of the Islamic community --; title: Paradigm of the Arab Empire --; title: Classical paradigm of Islam as a world religion --; title: Paradigm of the Ulama and Sufis --; title: Pardigm of Islamic modernization --; title: Challenges of the present --; title: Competition between paradigms --; title: What kind of Islam do Muslims want? --; title: Middle East conflict and a new paradigm --; title: New approaches to theological conversation --; title: Speculative questions --; title: From Biblical criticism to Qur'anic criticism? --; title: Possibilities for the future --; title: Islamic renewal --; title: Future of the Islamic legal order --; title: Future of Islamic state order and politics --; title: Future of the Islamic economic order --; title: Future of the Islamic way of life -- -- Epilogue:; title: Islam, an image of hope.