A Handbook of Islam is an abridged edition of the work The Religion of Islam, a renowned research work first published in 1936, with sub-sequent editions published till the present time. The Religion of Islam is a comprehensive book which divides its extensive treatment of Islam into three parts: (1) the sources of Islam, (2) the principles or doctrines of Islam, and (3) the practices of Islam relating to both the spiritual and the material aspects...