Before and after Muḥammad : the first millennium refocused

"Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty years, even generous definitions of this period have reached only the eighth century, whereas Islam did no...

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Auteur principal : Fowden Garth (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Before and after Muḥammad : the first millennium refocused / Garth Fowden
Publié : Princeton : Princeton University press , 2014, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-230 p.)
Sujets :
  • Including Islam
  • Time: beyond late antiquity
  • A new periodization: the first millennium
  • Space: an eastward shift
  • Exegetical culture I: Aristotelianism
  • Exegetical cultures 2: law and religion
  • Viewpoints around 1000: Ṭūs, Baṣra, Baghdad, Pisa