The Spiritual Background of Early Islam
Studies in Ancient Arab Concepts
Published on 27. November 2008
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-90-04-17200-5 (ISBN)
Description
In a series of essays devoted to key terms and ideas in Islam, Bravmann argues on the basis of pre-Islamic and early Islamic texts for an Arabian background to the rise of the religion. In pursuing a through philological examination of the evidence, Bravmann finds core values and ideas of Islam deeply embedded in ancient Arab linguistic expression. His work continues to provide a critical element in the debates about the emergence of Islam and cannot be ignored by anyone trying to assess the complex historiographical problems that surround the issue.
Reviews / Votes
"...a must for the library of every Arabist and Islamologist." - S.D. Goitein, in: JAOS, 1974"This work is to be most thoroughly recommended." - W. Montgomery Watt, in: Bull. of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1973
"...un riche champ d'investigations a la sociologie religieuse." - Jean-Pierre Charnay, in: Archives de Sociologie des Religions
"...l'erudition philologique redoutable de M.M. Bravmann." - O. Carre, in: Revue des sciences philosophiques et theologiques, 1976
"Bravmann's careful philological studies provide helpful data..." - A.T. Welch, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 1978
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-17200-5 (9789004172005)
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Person
M. M. Bravmann (1909-77) worked at the Columbia University Library and taught at Dropsie College, New York University and Columbia University. A prolific Semitic philologist Bravmann has been called the last in a scholarly line through Delitzsch, Noeldeke, Barth and Brockelmann.