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.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : color illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

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

Other Format:

Print version: Late antique responses to the Arab conquests

ISBN:

9789004500648

9004500642

Publisher Number:

90100368975

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