Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Part I: Introduction (Clinton Bennett, Professor Islamic Studies, SUNY, USA) Part II: Research Methods and Problems (Elliott Bazzano, Researcher) Part III: Current Research and Issues 1.Quranic Studies (Andrew Rippin, Professor of History, University of Victoria, Canada) 2. Hadith Studies (Aisha Y. Musa, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Colgate University, USA) 3. Researching Sufism in the 21st Century: Expanding the Context of Inquiry (Arthur F Buehler, Senior Lecturer at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand) 4. Islamic Theology (Mashhad Al-Allaf, Research Fellow, Cambridge University, UK) 5. Study of Shi 'ite Islam Syed Rizwan Zamir, Assistant Professor of Religion, Davidson College, USA) 6. Salafi Islam: The Study of Contemporary Religious-Political Movements William Shepard 7. Islam and the West (William Shepard, Researcher) 8. Fiqh, The Science of Islamic Jurisprudence Maria Curtis (Assistant professor of Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Houston, USA) 9. From Margin to Mainstream: The History of Islamic Art and Architecture in the Twenty- First Century (Jaclynne J. Kerner, Assistant Professor of Art History, SUNY, USA) Part IV: New Directions: The who, why, what, how and where of Studying Islam Part V: Chronology Part VI: Resources: An Annotated Bibliographical Guide Part VII: A-Z Index of Key Terms and Concepts References Index
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