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A Concise Dictionary of Islam

Ralf Elger

History, Everyday Life, Culture Updated Edition

More so than almost any other world religion, Islam shapes all areas of the lives of the Believers. Nevertheless, Islam is not a unifi ed entity. Over its 1400-year history, it has developed several branches and denominations and different Islamic cultures have emerged. This highly regarded defi nitive resource is now in its sixth updated edition and continues to provide indispensable basic knowledge about the diversity of Islam.

More than 250 entries describe the following:

• all central concepts of Islamic religious history

• the most important Muslim groups in the Western world

• the relationship of Muslims to music and theater, family and sexuality, nutrition and clothing.


“... informative in a concise and sound fashion, beyond the Orientalist’s technical language, about the most important terms you should know regarding the Islamic world.”

Wolfgang Günther Lerch, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung


“A book in which one constantly becomes stuck, feeling astonished or irritated, for example, about not knowing anything about the existence of an Islamic Marian devotion and mistakenly believing that the hijab is a requirement spelled out in the Koran.”

Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Die Welt

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Published by C.H.Beck , ISBN: 9783406705953

Main content page count: 256 Pages

ISBN: 9783406705953

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Italian Translation rights sold to Giulio Einaudi Editore