Bernheimer Teresa, Rippin Andrew. Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices

5th Edition — Routledge, 2019. — 346 p.Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices offers a survey of Islamic history and thought from the formative period of the religion to the contemporary period. It examines the unique elements which have combined to form Islam, in particular, the Qur'an and perceptions of the Prophet Muhammad, and traces the ways in which these ideas have interacted to influence Islam’s path to the present. Combining core source materials with coverage of current scholarship and of recent events in the Islamic world, Bernheimer and Rippin introduce this hugely significant religion, including alternative visions of Islam found in Shi’ism and Sufism, in a succinct, challenging, and refreshing way. The improved and expanded fifth edition is updated throughout and includes new textboxes.Teresa Bernheimer is Lecturer in the History of the Near and Middle East in the Early Islamic Period at SOAS, University of London. She is co-editor of Late Antiquity: Eastern Perspectives (2011).
Andrew Rippin is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and is the author of many works on the Qur'an and its interpretation.