The social origins of Islam : mind, economy, discourse / Mohammed A. Bamyeh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bamyeh, Mohammed A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Origin.

Islam.

Arabian Peninsula--Civilization.

Arabian Peninsula.

Arabian Peninsula--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The story of the origins of Islam provides a rich and suggestive example of sweeping cultural transformation. Incorporating both innovation and continuity, Islam built upon the existing cultural patterns among the peoples of the Arabian peninsula even as it threatened to eradicate these same patterns. In this provocative interdisciplinary study, Mohammed A. Bamyehcombines perspectives from sociology, literary studies, anthropology, and economic history to examine the cultural ecology that fostered Islam.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Part I: The Ground; ONE. The Ideology of the Horizons; TWO. Socioeconomy and the Horizon of Thought; THREE. Social Time, Death, and the Ideal; FOUR. Pre-Islamic Ontotheology and the Method of Knowledge; FIVE. The Discourse and the Path; Part II: The Faith; SIX. Prophetic Constitution; SEVEN. The House of the Umma and the Spider Web of the Tribe; EIGHT. Austerity, Power, and Worldly Exchange; NINE. In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Origins, the System, and the Accident; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8984-9

OCLC:

226376783