Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Part I: Introduction ( Clinton Bennett, Professor Islamic Studies, SUNY, USA) Part II: Research Methods and Problems (Elliott Bazzano, Researcher) Part III: Current Research and Issues 1.Quranic Studies (Andrew Rippin , Professor of History, University of Victoria, Canada) 2. Hadith Studies (Aisha Y. Musa , Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Colgate University, USA) 3. Researching Sufism in the 21st Century: Expanding the Context of Inquiry (Arthur F Buehler , Senior Lecturer at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand) 4. Islamic Theology (Mashhad Al-Allaf, Research Fellow, Cambridge University, UK) 5. Study of Shi 'ite Islam Syed Rizwan Zamir , Assistant Professor of Religion, Davidson College, USA) 6. Salafi Islam: The Study of Contemporary Religious-Political Movements William Shepard 7.

Islam and the West (William Shepard , Researcher) 8. Fiqh , The Science of Islamic Jurisprudence Maria Curtis (Assistant professor of Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Houston, USA) 9. From Margin to Mainstream: The History of Islamic Art and Architecture in the Twenty- First Century (Jaclynne J. Kerner , Assistant Professor of Art History, SUNY, USA) Part IV: New Directions: The who, why, what, how and where of Studying Islam Part V: Chronology Part VI: Resources: An Annotated Bibliographical Guide Part VII: A-Z Index of Key Terms and Concepts References Index.