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In 16 concise chapters on key topics, this work provides a rich, authoritative, and up-to-date introduction to Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, presenting essential background and context for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond.

The paper is a preliminary and introductory sketch of the background necessary to study Islamic ethics in China. (1) It situates Chinese Islam in the spectrum of world religions and within the context of the \"Three Teachings\" of China. (2) It traces the spread of Islam into the central Chinese lands and highlights the important role Sufism played in its expansion into the heart of China. (3) It offers an overview of the origin and development of Islamic literature in Chinese that drew on sources written mainly in Persian (Farsi) by Muslim authors of Central Asia and Iran. This body of literature was translated or adapted by a group of Chinese authors, who produced a collection of works written in Chinese and known as the Han Kitab (compiled between 1630 and 1730). Amalgamating Islamic patterns of thought with Confucian, Buddhist and Daoist ideas, these works developed the foundations for a comprehensive vision of Chinese Islamic ethics. This vision, in turn, gave moral and social cohesion to the Hui communities in China. (4) Finally, the paper identifies substantive issues of Islamic ethics in the Chinese context and draws up a catalog of issues that present avenues of research for Chinese Muslim ethics in a general and applied sense. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

This work is a critical Arabic text edition of Salwat al-ʿārifīn wa-uns al-mushtāqīn, a manual of early Sufism by Abū Khalaf al-Ṭabarī (d. ca. 470/1077). It is an integral part of Sufi literature and reflects Islamic developments in Nishapur in northeastern Iran.

Republication of Arthur Jeffery's important study, The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'ān, offers a new generation of scholars and students access to this foundational text. Arranged in Arabic alphabetical order, Jeffery's compendium of philological scholarship remains an indispensable tool for any serious study of Qur'ānic semantics.

The Qur’an, the holy book of Islam, is the most recent of the major sacred scriptures to have appeared in human history. It includes the prophetic proclamations of Muhammad (570–632) in Arabic, collected after his death in definitive written form and meticulously transmitted through the centuries. More than a billion Muslims around the globe consider the Qur’an to be the eternal word of God, who “sent down” the scripture as his final divine revelation and commissioned Muhammad to be the last prophet to proclaim his divine will for all of humanity to follow. Muslims believe that as the most