Islam, the Ancient near East and Varieties of Godlessness : Collected Studies in Three Volumes, Volume 3.
Crone, Patricia.
Islam, the Ancient near East and Varieties of Godlessness : Collected Studies in Three Volumes, Volume 3. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (279 pages) - Islamic History and Civilization Series ; v.131 . - Islamic History and Civilization Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Remarks on Receipt of the 2014 Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Lifetime Achievement Award -- List of Original Publications and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. "Barefoot and Naked": What Did the Bedouin of the Arab Conquests Look Like? -- Chapter 2. The Ancient Near East and Islam: The Case of Lot-Casting -- Chapter 3. Idrīs, Atraḫasīs and al-Khiḍr -- Chapter 4. Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥaḍrī and the Punishment of Unbelievers -- Chapter 5. The Dahrīs According to al-Jāḥiẓ -- Chapter 6. Ungodly Cosmologies -- Chapter 7. Post-Colonialism in Tenth-Century Islam -- Chapter 8. What Are Prophets For? The Social Utility of Religion in Medieval Islamic Thought -- Chapter 9. Oral Transmission of Subversive Ideas from the Islamic World to Europe: The Case of the Three Impostors -- Chapter 10. How the Field Has Changed in My Lifetime -- List of Patricia Crone's Publications -- Index of Names and Terms.
Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised articles. The present volume places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world.
9789004319318
Islam-History-To 1500.
God (Islam).
Electronic books.
BP55 -- .C766 2016eb
297.1/2267
Islam, the Ancient near East and Varieties of Godlessness : Collected Studies in Three Volumes, Volume 3. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (279 pages) - Islamic History and Civilization Series ; v.131 . - Islamic History and Civilization Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Remarks on Receipt of the 2014 Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Lifetime Achievement Award -- List of Original Publications and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. "Barefoot and Naked": What Did the Bedouin of the Arab Conquests Look Like? -- Chapter 2. The Ancient Near East and Islam: The Case of Lot-Casting -- Chapter 3. Idrīs, Atraḫasīs and al-Khiḍr -- Chapter 4. Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥaḍrī and the Punishment of Unbelievers -- Chapter 5. The Dahrīs According to al-Jāḥiẓ -- Chapter 6. Ungodly Cosmologies -- Chapter 7. Post-Colonialism in Tenth-Century Islam -- Chapter 8. What Are Prophets For? The Social Utility of Religion in Medieval Islamic Thought -- Chapter 9. Oral Transmission of Subversive Ideas from the Islamic World to Europe: The Case of the Three Impostors -- Chapter 10. How the Field Has Changed in My Lifetime -- List of Patricia Crone's Publications -- Index of Names and Terms.
Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised articles. The present volume places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world.
9789004319318
Islam-History-To 1500.
God (Islam).
Electronic books.
BP55 -- .C766 2016eb
297.1/2267