With over 1.5 billion followers worldwide, Islam is the second-largest and one of the fastest-growing religions in the world. As an aid for comparative religion studies, the Islamic Studies Collection brings together 34-volumes that provide an extensive background on the Islamic faith, its founder and prophet Muhhamad, and its relation to the Bible, Jesus Christ, and Christianity.

This volume contains the history of the development of the Qur’an, showing how its gradual formation was determined by the events of the Prophet’s life. Treated in this way, the Qur’an reveals his change of position towards the various classes of persons with whom he was brought into contact, and by the aptness of its injunctions, apologies, and denunciations, the reader is enabled to see how admirably this ‘piecemeal’ revelation was fitted to meet the requirements of Islam as they arose.

In The Faith of Islam, Edward Sell traces the rise and development of the Islamic religion primarily using Muslim literature. The Faith of Islam includes the following chapters: • The Foundations of Islam • Exegesis of the Qur’an and the Traditions • The Sects of Islam • The Creed of Islam • The Practical Duties of Islam • The Feasts and Fasts of Islam

These essays originally appeared in the Modern Christian College Magazine. Essays included: • The Mystics of Islám • The Báb and the Bábis • The Religious Orders of Islám • The Khalif Hákim and the Druses • The Status of the Zimmis • Islám in China • The Recensions of the Qurán • The Hanifs