Formation of Islam Religion and Society in the near East, 600-1800

Name: Formation of Islam Religion and Society in the near East, 600-1800
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ISBN: 9780521588133

ISBN-10: 0521588138

ISBN-13: 9780521588133

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jonathan P. Berkey, Patricia Crone

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This volume surveys the religious history of the peoples of the Near East. It examines the religious traditions which preceded Islam, Islam's first century and the beginnings of its own traditions, the classical period and the emergence of new forms of Islam in the middle period.

Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/23/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 301
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Patricia Crone is Mellon Professor of Islamic History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She is author of several books including Pre-industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-modern World; Roman, Provincial, and Islamic Law; Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam;and Slaves on Horses: the Evolution of Islamic Polity.




The Near East before Islam



Introduction



The religions of late antiquity



Arabia before Islam



The early seventh century



The Emergence of Islam, 600ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½750



Approaches and problems



The origins of the Muslim community



Early Islam in the Near East



The Umayyad period



The beginnings of sectarianism



The non-Muslims of early Islam



The 'Abbasid revolution



The Consolidation of Islam, 750ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1000



Issues of Islamic identity



Religion and politics



Shi'ism



The formation of Sunni traditionalism



Asceticism and mysticism



The non-Muslim communities



Medieval Islam, 1000ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1500



The medieval Islamic Near East



A Sunni 'revival'?



Common patterns in social and political organization



Modes of justice



The transmission of religious knowledge



Sufism



Popular religion



From medieval to modern Islam


Epilogue