ABSTRACT

First Published in 1968. This works seeks to be neither controversial nor polemical, the author intends to present an entirely objective account of the beliefs and institutions of Islam. Lammens describes Hejaz as the cradle of Islam, where Western Arabia in its mountainous complexity holds as the primary focus in this title. Discussing Islam as having been formed by the evolution of thirteen centuries, the details supplied within enable the reader to extensively follow its historical development.

chapter |13 pages

Muḥammad: The Founder of Islām

chapter |28 pages

The Qorān: The Sacred Book of Islām

chapter |17 pages

The ‘Sunna', or the Tradition of Islām

chapter |29 pages

Jurisprudence and the Law of Islām

chapter |29 pages

Asceticism and Mysticism of Islām

chapter |39 pages

The Sects of Islām

chapter |47 pages

Reformists and Modernists