This book, coming from the pen of the first serious Japanese scholar on Islam, discovers the substantive structure of the Qur'anic teaching in a fourfold relationship between God and man, viz., (i) God is the creator of man; (ii) He communicates His Will to man through revelation; (iii) there subsists a Lord-servant relationship between God and man and (iv) the concept of God as the God of good…
Islam, Bruce Lawrence argues, is a complex, international religious system that cannot be reduced to stereotypes. As Lawrence demonstrates, Islam is a religion shaped as much by its own postulates and ehical demands as by the specific circumstances of Muslim people in the modern world. It is time, Lawrence believes, to replace innacurate images of Islam with a recognition of the multifaced char…