TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edwin Elliot Calverley
TI  - Worship in Islam
SN  - 0830500324
PY  - 1925///
CY  - USA
PB  - Hyperion
KW  - English
KW  - Islam
KW  - General
KW  - Religions الأديان
N1  - About the author has prepared this rare volume painstakingly. Accordingly, when a person unacquainted with the doctrines and exercises of the Christian religion attends a cathedral service or reads a Christian devotional book, he undoubtedly notices many acts and many phrases that are new and strange to him, and that require explanation before he understands them. Similarly, one who does not have a Muslim training finds it difficult to understand what he or she sees and hears when observing a Muslim at worship alone or with others in a mosque. The eleventh century writer Al-Ghazzali supplies the required information in his Book of the Worship, of which the present work is a translation. The Introduction brings together the acts and utterances which constitute the formal ceremony, which is still practiced today, called 'the Worship', and gives an account of the times when this ceremony is used in the religious life of the Muslim. Annotations attempt to make clear the allusions and the technical terms, the knowledge of which al-Ghazzali takes for granted because he wrote his description of the Worship for Muslims. This book will assist missionaries and others, with or without a knowledge of Arabic, to understand the ideas and emotions which are expressed by the Muslim peoples in their most important religious ceremony. About the Elliott Calverley was born in 1882. He was a noted scholar. He did his graduation from Princeton University and obtained his PhD from Hartford Seminary Foundation. During most of his active career he was identified in the minds of those who knew him with the world of Islam, especially the Arabic-speaking segment of that world. The Muslim world was the main depository of his writings. The Title 'Worship In Being A Tra

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