Late antique responses to the Arab conquests / edited by Josephine van den Bent, Floris van den Eijnde and Johan Weststeijn.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Bent, Josephine van den, 1988- editor, author.

Eijnde, Floris van den, 1975- editor, author.

Weststeijn, Johan (Researcher), editor, author.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Conference Name:

Mohammed en het Einde van de Oudheid (Conference) (2015 : Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Series:

Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean ; v. 5.

Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean, 2405-4771 ; volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632.

Muḥammad.

Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Qurʼan.

Islamic civilization.

National characteristics, Arab.

Islam--History.

Islam.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization--Islamic influences.

Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--Colonization--History--To 1500.

Arabs.

Civilization--Islamic influences.

Colonization.

Medical Subjects:

Arabs.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : color illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

"Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests is a showcase of new discoveries in an exciting and rapidly developing field: the study of the transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam. The contributors to this volume engage with previously neglected sources, such as Arabic rock inscriptions, papyri and Byzantine archaeological remains. They also apply new interpretative methods to the literary tradition, reading the Qur'an as a late antique text, using Arabic poetry as a source to study the gestation of an Arab identity, and extracting settlement patterns of the Arabian colonizers in order to explain regional processes of Arabicization and Islamization. This volume shows how the Arab conquests changed both the Arabian conquerors and the conquered. Contributors are Ahmad Al-Jallad, Josephine van den Bent, Kevin van Bladel, Constanza Cordoni, Floris van den Eijnde, Harald Motzki, Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Joanita Vroom, Peter Webb, Johan Weststeijn, Clare Wilde"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Late Antique responses to the Arab conquests: an introduction / Josephine van den Bent, Floris van den Eijnde and Johan Weststeijn

The Qurʼanic Rūm: a Late Antique perspective / Clare Wilde

Wine and impurity in the Sura of the bees: a structuralist interpretation of Qurʼan 16:67 / Johan Weststeijn

Historical-critical research of the Sīra of the prophet Muhammad: what do we stand to gain? / Harald Motzki

Arabicization, Islamization, and the colonies of the conquerors / Kevin van Bladel

Continuity and change: elite responses to the founding of the Caliphate / Peter Webb

Muḥammad's world in Egypt / Petra M. Sijpesteijn

"May God be mindful of Yazīd the King": further reflections on the Yazīd inscription and the development of Arabic scripts / Ahmad Al-Jallad

Of siblings, kingdoms, and the days of the Messiah: Jewish literary responses to the new order in the land of Israel in the first Muslim period / Constanza Cordoni

New light on the Dark Ages: a Byzantine perspective on the Arab expansion / Joanita Vroom

Index.

Notes:

This book originated in a Dutch symposium on Late Antiquity and early Islam organized by the Zenobia Foundation in 2015: "Mohammed en het einde van de Oudheid"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 18, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Late antique responses to the Arab conquests

ISBN:

9004500642

9789004500648

OCLC:

1275432738