Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

by Carole M. Cusack and Muhammad Afzal Upal

The Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements offers a multinational study of Islam, its variants, influences, and neighbouring movements, from a multidisciplinary range of scholars. These chapters highlight the diversity of Islam, especially in its contemporary manifestations, as a religion of many communities, theologies, and ideologies. Over five sections--on Sunni, Shia, Sufi, fundamentalist, and fringe Islamic movements--the authors provide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900442525X
• ISBN13: 9789004425255
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 816 Pages