A Short History of Islamic Thought

Abstract

Fitzroy Morrissey's A Short History of Islamic Thought addresses itself to a non-academic audience, setting out across some 200 readable pages the key concepts, individuals and movements that have shaped Muslim intellectual traditions over the past 1400 years. Twelve chapters take the reader from Islam's origins through to the modernist experiments of the twentieth century, followed by a brief epilogue bringing the account into conversation with the present. Though the continued relevance of that history is made clear, Morrissey is careful to affirm that the systems of thought described are of great value in and of themselves.