Faith and practice / Peter J. Awn -- The message and the messenger / Fazlur Rahman -- The foundations of state and society / Roy P. Mottahedeh -- The early Muslim empires : Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids / Francis E. Peters -- Islamic universalism in the later middle ages / Ross E. Dunn -- The later Muslim empires : Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals / I. Metin Kunt -- The colonial period / Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr. -- Muslim responses to colonialism / John O. Voll -- Muslim nation-states / Marjorie Kelly -- Muslim societies today / John L. Esposito -- Islamic law / Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- The changing Arab Muslim family / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot -- Muslims in the United States / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Present tendencies, future trends / Seyyed Hossein Nasr.