Early Islam A Critical Reconstruction Based on Contemporary Sources

Name: Early Islam A Critical Reconstruction Based on Contemporary Sources
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ISBN: 9781616148256

ISBN-10: 161614825X

ISBN-13: 9781616148256

Edition: 2013

Authors: Karl-Heinz Ohlig

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This successor volume to The Hidden Origins of Islam (edited by Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Gerd-R. Puin) continues the pioneering research begun in the first volume into the earliest development of Islam. Using coins, commemorative building inscriptions, and a rigorous linguistic analysis of the Koran along with Persian and Christian literature from the seventh and eighth centuries--when Islam was in its formative stages--five expert contributors attempt a reconstruction of this critical time period.Despite the scholarly nature of their work, the implications of their discoveries are startling: • Islam originally emerged as a sect of Christianity. • Its central theological tenets were…

Book details

List price: $48.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 11/19/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 647
Size: 6.46" wide x 8.95" long x 1.64" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English