The Islamic fast

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" The Islamic fast "
Hodsdon, James Dennis Burton, J.

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	806674
Doc. No	:	TLets503352
Main Entry	:	Hodsdon, James Dennis
Title & Author	:	The Islamic fast\ Hodsdon, James DennisBurton, J.
College	:	University of St Andrews
Date	:	1972
student score	:	1972
Degree	:	Thesis (Ph.D.)
Abstract	:	As is well-known, fasting is one of the 'Pillars of Islam'. It might therefore be expected that as such, it would already have been extensively investigated. But this is not the case, for, besides the many minor points of interest which still require elucidation, it is not an exaggeration to say that even the broadest facts about the beginnings and early development of the Islamic fast have not hitherto been conclusively established. Theoretically, the fast is based in the Quran, yet part of the relevant section in the Quran is consciously ignored by most Muslims, while many of their conceptions as regards the rest are at best ill-founded. It should be stressed from the outset that there is no intention here of implying any conscious perversion in this; the reasons underlying the Muslim view of the fast are expounded later.
Subject	:	BP134.F3H7; Fasting--Religious aspects--Islam--Koranic teaching; Koran--Theology; Food in the Koran
Added Entry	:	Burton, J.
Added Entry	:	University of St Andrews