TY - BOOK AU - Schimmel, Annemarie TI - Islam: : an Introduction SN - 9780791413289 U1 - 297 PY - 1992/// CY - New York PB - State University of New York Press KW - Islam KW - Islam - History KW - Islamic Tradition N1 - https://sunypress.edu/Books/I/Islam2 N2 - It is a splendid introduction—carefully researched and comprehensive, yet readable. It corrects many popular and erroneous notions about Islam that prevail in non-Muslim societies. For the general reader there are many profound insights of great consequence, for example, the passages on women, marriage, and inheritance, or the section on jihad, nearly always completely misunderstood in the press ER -