El Islam / What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam: 94 Preguntas Basicas/ 94 Basic Questions (Humanidades / Humanities, 4109) - Softcover

Esposito, John L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8420656518 ISBN 13: 9788420656519

Publisher: Alianza Editorial Sa, 2004

Synopsis

279pp , About the author :: John Louis Esposito (born May 19, 1940 , Brooklyn, New York ) is a professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University . He is also the director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University ... Esposito was raised Catholic in an Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn , New York, and spent a decade in a Catholic monastery . After taking his first degree, he worked as a management consultant and professor of secondary ... then studied and obtained a masters degree in theology at San Juan College . He earned a doctorate at Temple University, Pennsylvania in 1974 , studying Islam and held postdoctoral positions at Harvard and Oxford. He is known as an advocate of strong ties between Muslims and Christians and has faced the Vatican to make a greater effort to promote these lazos..Durante almost twenty years after completing his doctorate, Esposito had taught religious studies ( such as Hinduism Buddhism and Islam ) at the College of the Holy Cross , a Jesuit college in Massachusetts. In Santa Cruz, Esposito out Loyola Professor of Middle East Studies position was the director of the Department of Religious Studies , and director of the University Center for International Studies. At Georgetown University , Esposito holds the position of Professor of the University and teaches both as Professor of Religion and International Affairs and Professor of Islamic Studies . Esposito also works as a Senior Scientist at the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, where he was co - author who speaks for Islam? What a billion Muslims really think , which was published in March 2008 ... Posted Islam and politics in 1984 , and Islam: The Straight Path in 1988. Both books sold well, going through many editions. In addition to more than 35 books , is editor in chief of a series of reference books from Oxford including Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World , Oxford History of Islam

Edition details

• Publisher: Alianza Editorial Sa
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 8420656518
• ISBN 13: 9788420656519
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280