Islam, the ancient near East and varieties of godlessness. Collected studies in three. Volume 3 / by Patricia Crone ; edited by Hanna Siurua.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crone, Patricia, author.

Contributor:

Siurua, Hanna, editor.

Series:

Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 131.

Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts, 0929-2403 ; Volume 131

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--History--To 1500.

Islam.

God (Islam).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Summary:

Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 3, Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness , places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world. Volume 1, The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters , pursues the reconstruction of the religious environment in which Islam arose and develops an intertextual approach to studying the Qurʾānic religious milieu. Volume 2, The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands , examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam, above all that of the Iranians. The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands

Contents:

Front Matter

“Barefoot and Naked”: What Did the Bedouin of the Arab Conquests Look Like?

The Ancient Near East and Islam: The Case of Lot-Casting

Idrīs, Atraḫasīs and al-Khiḍr

Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥaḍrī and the Punishment of Unbelievers

The Dahrīs According to al-Jāḥiẓ

Ungodly Cosmologies

Post-Colonialism in Tenth-Century Islam

What Are Prophets For? The Social Utility of Religion in Medieval Islamic Thought

Oral Transmission of Subversive Ideas from the Islamic World to Europe: The Case of the Three Impostors

How the Field Has Changed in My Lifetime

List of Patricia Crone’s Publications

Index of Names and Terms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 4, 2016).

ISBN:

90-04-31931-X

OCLC:

946967856

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004319318 DOI