Remapping Emergent Islam
Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories
Published on 1. October 2020
Book
Hardback
244 pages
978-94-6298-806-4 (ISBN)
Description
This multidisciplinary collective volume advances the scholarly discussion on the origins of Islam. It simultaneously focuses on three domains: texts, social contexts, and ideological developments relevant for the study of Islam's beginnings -- taking the latter expression in its broadest possible sense. The intersections of these domains need to be examined afresh in order to obtain a clear picture of the concurrent phenomena that collectively enabled both the gradual emergence of a new religious identity and the progressive delimitation of its initially fuzzy boundaries.
Reviews / Votes
Cet ouvrage a le merite de proposer des reflexions stimulantes et d'ouvrir des debats originaux et novateurs pour les etudes sur le Coran et les debuts de l'islam, contribution fort appreciable, dans un domaine ou de nombreux travaux, loin d'ouvrir des perspectives nouvelles, ont plutot tendance a fermer dogmatiquement des portes.- Guillaume Dye, Universite libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques, No. 36 (2022)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
537 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-6298-806-4 (9789462988064)
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Person
Carlos A. Segovia is Lecturer in Qur'anic and Religious Studies at Saint Louis University-Madrid and founding Co-Director of the Early Islamic Studies Seminar: International Scholarship on the Qur'an and Islamic Origins.
Content
1. Introduction - Carlos A. Segovia,Re-Assessing the Hypothesis of a Peripheral Jewish Background, 2. South Arabian Judaism, Himyarite Rahmanism, and the Origins of Islam - Aaron W. Hughes, 3. The Absence of the Messiah in the Qur'an and the Evidence of Jewish Eschatology - Jose Costa,An Encrypted Manichaean/Messalian Matrix?, 4. The Astral Messenger, The Lunar Redemption, The Solar Salvation: Manichaean Cosmic Soteri-ology in the Qur'an's Archaic Surahs (Q 84, Q 75, Q 54) - Daniel Beck, 5. Binitarianism, Messalianism, and the East-Syrian Background of the Early Quranic Milieu - Carlos A. Segovia,Measuring the World's Timeline= and Imagining the Afterlife at the Persian Court?, 6. The Jewish and Christian Background of the Original Islamic Calendar - Basil Lourie, 7. The Persian Keys to Quranic Paradise - Gilles Courtieu,Conceptual Quicksands, Meta-Narratives of Identity, Texts, and their Marginalia, 8. Extremist Shi'ism and Muhammad's Alleged Message - Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, 9. Echoes of Pseudepigrapha in the Qur'an - Tommaso Tesei, 10. What Do We Mean by the Qur'an? On Palimpsests, Collections, and Inter-Narrative Identity - Emilio Gonzalez Ferrin|Multidisciplinarity, innovative and theoretically sophisticated scholarship. Challenges the more conservative strands of scholarship within the historiography Situates the rise of Islam within the world of Late Antiquity.