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. The intersections of these domains need to be examined afresh in order to obtain a clear picture of the concurrent phenomena that collectively enabled both the gradual emergence of a new religious identity and the progressive delimitation of its initially fuzzy boundaries.
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Cet ouvrage a le mérite de proposer des réflexions stimulantes et d'ouvrir des débats originaux et novateurs pour les études sur le Coran et les débuts de l'islam, contribution fort appréciable, dans un domaine où de nombreux travaux, loin d'ouvrir des perspectives nouvelles, ont plutôt tendance à fermer dogmatiquement des portes.- Guillaume Dye, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques, No. 36 (2022)
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.
Carlos A. Segovia is Lecturer in Quranic and Religious Studies at Saint Louis University-Madrid and founding Co-Director of the Early Islamic Studies Seminar: International Scholarship on the Quran and Islamic Origins.
