A study of the rise of Islam within the context of the cultural social and religious conditions of pre-Islamic Arabia, Muhammad’s religious message and the Koran, development of theology, law, and consolidation of Sunnism. Attention given to the concept of nonseparation of state and religion in Muslim thought, to the experience of women, and to themes in comparative art, architecture and ritual.

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