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Author : Patricia Crone
Release : 1977-04-21
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 338/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World by : Patricia Crone
Download or read book Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World written by Patricia Crone. This book was released on 1977-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Islamic civilisation and the intimate link between Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam.
Author : Patricia Crone
Release : 1980
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 547/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hagarism by : Patricia Crone
Download or read book Hagarism written by Patricia Crone. This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Islamic civilisation and the intimate link between Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam.
Author : Patricia Crone
Release : 2003-09-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 114/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis God's Caliph by : Patricia Crone
Download or read book God's Caliph written by Patricia Crone. This book was released on 2003-09-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that, as in Shi'ism, it was concentrated in the head of state, rather than dispersed among learned laymen as in Sunnism. Originally the caliph was both head of state and ultimate source of religious law; the Sunni pattern represents the outcome of a conflict between the caliph and early scholars who, as spokesmen of the community, assumed religious leadership for themselves. Many Islamicists have assumed the Shi'ite concept of the imamate to be a deviant development. In contrast, this book argues that it is an archaism preserving the concept of religious authority with which all Muslims began.
Author : Fred M. Donner
Release : 2012-05-07
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 143/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Muhammad and the Believers by : Fred M. Donner
Download or read book Muhammad and the Believers written by Fred M. Donner. This book was released on 2012-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of Islam, arguing that its origins began with the "Believers" movement that emphasized strict monotheism and righteous behavior that included both Christians and Jews in its early years.
Author : Robert G. Hoyland
Release : 2014-01-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 311/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam by : Robert G. Hoyland
Download or read book Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam written by Robert G. Hoyland. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new approach to the vexing question of how to write the early history of Islam. The first part discusses the nature of the Muslim and non-Muslim source material for the seventh- and eighth-century Middle East and argues that by lessening the divide between these two traditions, which has largely been erected by modern scholarship, we can come to a better appreciation of this crucial period. The second part gives a detailed survey of sources and an analysis of some 120 non-Muslim texts, all of which provide information about the first century and a half of Islam (roughly A.D. 620-780). The third part furnishes examples, according to the approach suggested in the first part and with the material presented in the second part, how one might write the history of this time. The fourth part takes the form of excurses on various topics, such as the process of Islamization, the phenomenon of conversion to Islam, the development of techniques for determining the direction of prayer, and the conquest of Egypt. Because this work views Islamic history with the aid of non-Muslim texts and assesses the latter in the light of Muslim writings, it will be essential reading for historians of Islam, Christianity, Judaism, or Zoroastrianism--indeed, for all those with an interest in cultures of the eastern Mediterranean in its traditional phase from Late Antiquity to medieval times.
