deas while providing an account of Islam under Mohammad and after him, one that includes basic tenets of Islamic belief like the Five Pillars of Islam, Islamic law, and how Islamic beliefs shape ideas and behaviors regarding food, circumcision, death and others.
Chapter 3 addresses how systems of values, norms, and religious beliefs come together as an important part of the social process. Islam has experienced many schisms or internal divisions that arise typically due to the debate over how to best reconcile Islam as a culture and set of core values with current political institutions. As Bates and Rassam (2001, p. 58) argue, Islam represents a ôànexus of values, norms, and expectations, and as a source of identity.ö Even so, Islam, like Catholicism attempts to reconcile its values in offering
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