The Emergence of Islam By M Hamidullah

• Author Name : Muhammad Hamidullah
• Cover : Paper Back 
• Language : English 
• Publication : Islamic Research Institute 

The Emergence of Islam, a free English rendering of a series of twelve lectures delivered by Muhammad Hamidullah, attempts to highlight the basic thrust of Islamic teachings and to outline the formative period o Islam's intellectual and institutional history. The work, which is of cqual significance for scholars and laymen, explains at some length the genesis and growth of Islamic thought, society and state, and of the institutions which were developed to translate Islamic norms into practice. The late author has eminently succeeded in conveying a synthetic picture of Islam as it emerged in the early period of its historyas a religion, as a community asastate, and as an intellectual tradition.

The present work, coming as it does from one of the best-known scholars of Islam of the past century, is a major contribution to a better understanding of Islam and Muslims. The second edition of the book 's well-timed as it coincides with a world-wide surge in the desire to understand Islam.

Muhammad Hamidullah, born in 1908 in Hyderabad, India, graduated from Osmania University, Hyderabad and then obtained doctoral degrees from the Universities of Bonn and Sorbonne. He taught at the Osmania University and as a Visiting Professor in the University of Istanbul. He also worked for long as a researcher in Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. He moved to USA in 1996 where he breathed his last in 2002.