This multidisciplinary collective volume advances the scholarly discussion on the origins of Islam. It simultaneously focuses on three domains: texts, social contexts, and ideological developments relevant for the study of Islam's beginnings -- taking the latter expression in its broadest possible sense.
This multidisciplinary collective volume advances the scholarly discussion on the origins of Islam. It simultaneously focuses on three domains: texts, social contexts, and ideological developments relevant for the study of Islam's beginnings -- taking the latter expression in its broadest possible sense.
Carlos A. Segovia is Lecturer in Qur'anic and Religious Studies at Saint Louis University-Madrid and founding Co-Director of the Early Islamic Studies Seminar: International Scholarship on the Qur'an and Islamic Origins.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction - Carlos A. Segovia Re-Assessing the Hypothesis of a Peripheral Jewish Background 2. South Arabian Judaism Himyarite Rahmanism and the Origins of Islam - Aaron W. Hughes 3. The Absence of the Messiah in the Qur'an and the Evidence of Jewish Eschatology - José Costa An Encrypted Manichaean/Messalian Matrix? 4. The Astral Messenger The Lunar Redemption The Solar Salvation: Manichaean Cosmic Soteri-ology in the Qur'an's Archaic Surahs (Q 84 Q 75 Q 54) - Daniel Beck 5. Binitarianism Messalianism and the East-Syrian Background of the Early Quranic Milieu - Carlos A. Segovia Measuring the World's Timeline= and Imagining the Afterlife at the Persian Court? 6. The Jewish and Christian Background of the Original Islamic Calendar - Basil Lourié 7. The Persian Keys to Quranic Paradise - Gilles Courtieu Conceptual Quicksands Meta-Narratives of Identity Texts and their Marginalia 8. Extremist Shi'ism and Muhammad's Alleged Message - Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi 9. Echoes of Pseudepigrapha in the Qur'an - Tommaso Tesei 10. What Do We Mean by the Qur'an? On Palimpsests Collections and Inter-Narrative Identity - Emilio González Ferrín Multidisciplinarity innovative and theoretically sophisticated scholarship. Challenges the more conservative strands of scholarship within the historiography Situates the rise of Islam within the world of Late Antiquity.
1. Introduction - Carlos A. Segovia Re-Assessing the Hypothesis of a Peripheral Jewish Background 2. South Arabian Judaism Himyarite Rahmanism and the Origins of Islam - Aaron W. Hughes 3. The Absence of the Messiah in the Qur'an and the Evidence of Jewish Eschatology - José Costa An Encrypted Manichaean/Messalian Matrix? 4. The Astral Messenger The Lunar Redemption The Solar Salvation: Manichaean Cosmic Soteri-ology in the Qur'an's Archaic Surahs (Q 84 Q 75 Q 54) - Daniel Beck 5. Binitarianism Messalianism and the East-Syrian Background of the Early Quranic Milieu - Carlos A. Segovia Measuring the World's Timeline= and Imagining the Afterlife at the Persian Court? 6. The Jewish and Christian Background of the Original Islamic Calendar - Basil Lourié 7. The Persian Keys to Quranic Paradise - Gilles Courtieu Conceptual Quicksands Meta-Narratives of Identity Texts and their Marginalia 8. Extremist Shi'ism and Muhammad's Alleged Message - Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi 9. Echoes of Pseudepigrapha in the Qur'an - Tommaso Tesei 10. What Do We Mean by the Qur'an? On Palimpsests Collections and Inter-Narrative Identity - Emilio González Ferrín Multidisciplinarity innovative and theoretically sophisticated scholarship. Challenges the more conservative strands of scholarship within the historiography Situates the rise of Islam within the world of Late Antiquity.
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