Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

THE HEART OF ISLAM: Enduring Values for Humanity

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Preface
• CHAPTER ONE: ONE GOD, MANY PROPHETS
• GOD THE ONE
• CREATION OF THE WORLD AND OF HUMAN BEINGS
• MANY REVELATIONS, MANY PROPHETS
• THE QURAN
• THE PROPHET OF ISLAM
• ISLAM’S ATTITUDE TOWARD OTHER RELIGIONS IN HISTORY
• WHO IS A BELIEVER AND WHO IS AN INFIDEL?
• ISLAM AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM TODAY
• CHAPTER TWO: THE SPECTRUM OF ISLAM
• ISLAMIC PATTERNS
• FACTORS THAT CREATE UNITY
• SOURCES OF DIVERSITY: THE HIERARCHICAL LEVELS OF MEANING AND INTERPRETATION OF THE TRADITION
• SUNNISM AND SHI ‘ISM AND THEIR BRANCHES
• RELIGIOUS SECTS WITHIN THE ISLAMIC WORLD
• INTELLECTUAL AND THEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
• THE QUESTION OF ORhTHODOXY AND HETERODOXY
• CULTURAL ZONES IN ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION
• TRADITIONAL, MODERNIST, AND “FUNDAMENTALIST” INTERPRETATIONS OF ISLAM TODAY 
• CHAPTER THREE: DIVINE AND HUMAN LAWS
• THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW IN ISLAM
• THE SOURCES OF THE SHARI‘AH AND THE METHODOLOGY OF ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE 
• TO WHOM DOES THE SHARI‘AH APPLY?
• CATEGORIES OF ACTIONS AND VALUES
• THE CONTENT OF THE SHARI‘AH: ACTS OF WORSHIP AND TRANSACTIONS 
• Acts of Worship
• PUNISHMENTS AND RESTRICTIVE ORDINANCES
• DIVINE AND HUMAN LAWS: CRISIS AND CONFRONTATION TODAY 
• THE DIVINE LAW, ETHICS, AND THE RELIGIOUS ETHOS
• CHAPTER FOUR: THE VISION OF COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY
• THE CONCEPT OF COMMUNITY
• DAR AL-ISLAM AND DAR AL-HARB
• MUSLIM MINORITIES
• MINORITIES WITHIN THE “ABODE OF ISLAM”
• ISLAMIC SOCIETY: THE IDEAL AND THE PRACTICE OF THE GOOD LIFE 
• THE STRUCTURE OF ISLAMIC SOCIETY
• ISLAM AND SLAVERY
• THE FAMILY WITHIN ISLAMIC SOCIETY
• THE MALE AND FEMALE IN THE ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE
• WOMEN IN THE FAMILY AND IN SOCIETY
• ISLAM AND THE INTEGRATION OF SOCIETY
• CHAPTER FIVE: COMPASSION AND LOVE, PEACE AND BEAUTY 
• COMPASSION, LOVE, PEACE, AND BEAUTY AS DIVINE QUALITIES 
• COMPASSION AND MERCY
• LOVE
• PEACE
• BEAUTY
• THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ISLAMIC ART
• IHSAN: VIRTUOUS BEAUTY, BEAUTIFUL VIRTUE
• CHAPTER SIX: DIVINE AND HUMAN JUSTICE
• THE INNATE HUMAN SENSE OF JUSTICE AND THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE 
• DIVINE JUSTICE
• THE BALANCE
• ISLAMIC ESCHATOLOGICAL DOCTRINES
• JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD: THE VIEWS OF ‘ALI
• HUMAN JUSTICE AND ITS MODES
• JIHAD
• CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH WAR CAN BE FOUGHT
• MARTYRDOM
• TO ESTABLISH JUSTICE AND PEACE
• CHAPTER SEVEN: HUMAN RESPONSIBILITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS 
• TO BE HUMAN
• HUMAN RESPONSIBILITIES
• HUMAN RIGHTS
• FREEDOM FROM RELIGION VERSUS FREEDOM OF RELIGION
• CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM RESPONSES TO THE ISSUE OF FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS 
• THE 303 HUMAN CONDITION AND THE ROLE OF ISLAM
• EPILOGUE: THE ETHICAL AND SPIRITUAL NATURE OF HUMAN LIFE, EAST AND WEST 
• E - book Afterword
• CIVILIZATIONAL DIALOGUE AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD
• Notes of Epilogue
• Notes of The Book
• CHAPTER ONE
• CHAPTER TWO
• CHAPTER THREE
• CHAPTER FOUR
• CHAPTER FIVE
• CHAPTER SIX
• Bibliography