Traditions and Encounters, 4th Edition (Bentley)

Chapter 14: A NEW SOCIETY: THE EXPANSIVE REALM OF ISLAM

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Pilgrimage in the Quran
Excerpt from the Quran on the Hajj.
( http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/124.html )
Selections from the 'Life of Muhammad'
Excerpts from Ibn Ishaq's eight-century biography of Muhammad.
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/muhammadi-sira.html )
Ralph Glaber: On the First Millenium
This selection discusses the Christian pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/glaber-1000.html )
Obligatory Charity Tax After Ramadan (Zakat ul Fitr)
Selection from the Hadith.
( http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/025.sbt.html )
Muhammad is the Messenger of God
Excerpt from the Quran.
( http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/232.html )
Sayings
Sayings of the Sufi mystic Mansur al-Hallaj.
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/all-hallaj-quotations.html )
Baghdad under the Abbasids
Yakut's geographical account of the physical geography of the great Arab city of Baghdad.
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1000baghdad.html )
On Medicine
Ibn Sina (Avicenna) describes how medicine should be studied.
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1020Avicenna-Medicine.html )
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