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Islam, the Ancient near East and Varieties of Godlessness : Collected Studies in Three Volumes, Volume 3.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Islamic History and Civilization SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004319318
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Islam, the Ancient near East and Varieties of GodlessnessDDC classification:
  • 297.1/2267
LOC classification:
  • BP55 -- .C766 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised articles.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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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