The emergence of Islam in late antiquity : Allah and his people / Aziz Al-Azmeh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

ʻAẓmah, ʻAzīz, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--History--To 1500.

Islam.

Islam--Origin.

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 634 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Summary:

"Based on a critical review of the relevant scholarship, and with the use of epigraphic and other material evidence as well as more traditional sources, this book presents a comprehensive and innovative reconstruction of the rise of Islam as a religion and imperial polity. It reassesses the development of the imperial monotheism of the New Rome, and the history of the Arabs as an integral part of Late Antiquity, including their ethnogenesis, and the emergence in this context of what was to become Muslim monotheism, which is compared with the emergence of other monotheisms from polytheistic systems. Topics discussed include the emergence and development of the Muhammadan polity and its new cultic deity, its associated ritual, the constitution of the Muslim canon, and the development of early Islam as an imperial religion. Intended principally for scholars of late antiquity, Islamic studies and the history of religions, the book opens up many novel directions for future research"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1107031877

9781107031876

OCLC:

851753979

Publisher Number:

99958996396