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Islam and Politics is essential reading for those seeking a readable and reliable account of the basic teachings of Islam concerning politics and government

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Rumi (1207-1273) was trained in Sufism--a mystic tradition within Islam--and founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes

The Islamic Secular middle east studies set out from post-revolutionary FranceThe basic point of the secular in the modern West is to "liberate" certain pursuits the state, the economy, science from the authority of religion. This is also assumed to be the goal and meaning of "secular" in Islam. Sherman Jackson argues, however, that that assumption is wrong. In Islam the "secular" was neither outside "religion" nor a rival to it. "Religion," in Islam was not identical to Islam's "sacred law," or "shari'ah." Nor did classical