Routledge handbook on early Islam / edited by Herbert Berg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berg, Herbert, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--History.

Islam.

History.

Islam--Doctrines--History.

Islam--Doctrines.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

First.

Other Title:

Handbook on early Islam

Early Islam

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The formative period of Islam remains highly contested. From the beginning of modern scholarship on the formative period, scholars have questioned traditional Muslim accounts on early Islam. The scholarly fixation is mirrored by sectarian groups and movements within Islam, most of which trace their origins to this period. Moreover, contemporary movements from Salafists to modernists continue to point to Islam's origins to justify their positions. This Handbook provides a definitive overview of early Islam and how this period was understood and deployed by later Muslims. It is split into four main parts, the first of which explores the debates and positions on the critical texts and figures of early Islam. The second part turns to the communities that identified their origins with the Our'an and Muhammad. In addition to the development of Muslim identities and polities, of particular focus is the relationship with groups outside or movements inside of the umma (the collective community of Muslims). The third part looks beyond what happened from the 7th to the 9th centuries CE and explores what that period, the events figures, and texts have meant for Muslims in the past and what they mean for Muslims today. Not all Muslims or scholars are willing to merely reinterpret early Islam and its sources, though; some are willing to jettison pats, or even all, of the edifice that has been constructed over almost a millennium and a half. The Handbook therefore concludes with discussions of re-imaginations and revisions of early Islam and its sources. Almost every major debate in the study of Islam and among Muslims looks to the formative period of Islam. The wide range of contributions from many of the leading academic experts on the subject therefore means that this book will be a valuable resource for all students and scholars of Islamic studies, as well as for anyone with an interest in early Islam. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Qur'an and Muhammad 7

1 The Qur'an / Nicolai Sinai Sinai, Nicolai 9

2 The Qur'an and other scriptures / David Cook Cook, David 25

3 The collection and canonization of the Qur'an / Herbert Berg Berg, Herbert 37

4 Muhammad / Stephen J. Shoemaker Shoemaker, Stephen J. 49

5 The sïra / Pavel Pavlovitch Pavlovitch, Pavel 65

6 Hadith and sunna / Jens Scheiner Scheiner, Jens 79

7 Exegesis / Michael E. Pregill Pregill, Michael E. 98

Part II Identities and communities in early Islam 127

8 Identity and social formation in the early Caliphate / Peter Webb Webb, Peter 129

9 Pre-Islamic Arabia and early Islam / Ilkka Lindstedt Lindstedt, Ilkka 159

10 Early Muslims and Peoples of the Book / Fred M. Donner Donner, Fred M. 177

11 Politics and economics of the early Caliphate / Fanny Bessard Bessard, Fanny 194

12 The myth of the "Shi'i perspective": identity and memory in early Islam / Najam Haider Haider, Najam 209

13 Mysticism in early Islam: the pre-compilations phase / Sara Sviri Sviri, Sara 223

Part III Modern and contemporary reinterpretation of early Islam 239

14 Modernists and their opponents: reading Islam / Simon Wood Wood, Simon 241

15 The golden age and the contemporary political order: the Muslim Brotherhood and early Islam / Rachel M. Scott Scott, Rachel M. 258

16 Salafis: past to present, present to past / Jeffrey T. Kenney Kenney, Jeffrey T. 274

17 Feminist Muslim (re)interpretations of early Islam / Aiska Geissinger Geissinger, Aiska 296

Part IV Revisioning early Islam 309

18 Early Islam: an alternative scenario of its emergence / Markus Gross Gross, Markus 311

19 Qur'anists / Daniel W. Brown Brown, Daniel W. 327

20 In search of authenticity: modern discourse over homosexuality through early Islamic thought / Sara Omar Omar, Sara 339

21 True history in black and white: reimagined origins in the Nation of Islam / Herbert Berg Berg, Herbert 359

22 Invocations of early Islam in US discourse(s) of Muslim pluralism / Justine Howe Howe, Justine 374.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781317589204

1317589203

9781317589211

1317589211

9781317589198

131758919X

9781315743462

1315743469

OCLC:

1012839162

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