The SAGE handbook of Islamic studies / edited by Akbar S. Ahmed and Tamara Sonn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : current issues in Islamic studies / Laura Thomas -- Islam as a community of discourse and a world-system / John Obert Voll -- Islam, diaspora, and multiculturalism / Bryan S. Turner -- Andalusian jurist, Berber commander, and Mozarab rebel : understanding Iberia's Islamic experience / Camilo Gomez-Rivas -- The Qur'an / Qaiser Shahzad -- Islamic concepts of justice / Lawrence Rosen -- Islamic economics : salient features and a critical survey / S.M. Ghazanfar -- From madrasa to university : the challenges and formats of Islamic education / Dietrich Reetz -- Political philosophy and political thought in the medieval Arabic-Islamic tradition of the Middle East / Charles E. Butterworth -- Arabic-Islamic literature : continuities and transformations / Asma Afsaruddin -- Islamic art : visual manifestations of a faith and a culture / Walter Denny -- Women's agency in Muslim society / Amineh Ahmed -- Islam and democracy : is Turkey an exception or a role model? / Haldun Gülalp -- Islam in the West / Earle H. Waugh -- Shi'a Islam / Ayatollah Seyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad -- Doctrinal Sufism and theoretical gnosis / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Contemporary Sufism : Islam without borders / Robert Sampson.