The Formation of the Classical Islamic World
Magic and Divination in Early Islam
1st Edition
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By Emilie Savage-Smith
November 01, 2018
Magic and divination in early Islam encompassed a wide range of practices, including belief in jinn, warding off the evil eye, the production of amulets and other magical equipment, conjuring, wonder-working, dream interpretation, predicting the weather, casting lots, astrology, and physiognomy. ...
Manufacturing and Labour
1st Edition
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By Michael G. Morony
May 31, 2017
This volume, together with its companion volume Production and the Exploitation of Resources, examines the economic basis of the early Islamic world, looking at the organization of extractive and agricultural operations, manufacturing processes, and labour relations. This volume opens with studies...
Hadith: Origins and Developments
1st Edition
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By Harald Motzki
September 12, 2016
Hadith is understood here in its broader meaning as the bulk of the texts which contain information on the prophet Muhammad and his Companions, having the form of transmissions from them. The reliability of this material as a source for early Islam is still a highly debated issue. This selection of...
Late Antiquity on the Eve of Islam
1st Edition
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By Averil Cameron
April 17, 2013
This volume reflects the huge upsurge of interest in the Near East and early Islam currently taking place among historians of late antiquity. At the same time, Islamicists and Qur'anic scholars are also increasingly seeking to place the life of Muhammad and the Qur'an in a late antique background. ...
Education and Learning in the Early Islamic World
1st Edition
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By Claude Gilliot
August 22, 2012
Studying education and learning in the formative period of Islam is not immediately easy, since the sources for this are relatively late and frequently project backwards to the earlier period the assumptions and conditions of their own day. The studies in this volume have been selected for the ...
The Articulation of Early Islamic State Structures
1st Edition
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By Fred M. Donner
February 28, 2012
This volume reprints nineteen articles that deal with the formation of the first Islamic state under the 'rightly-guided' and Umayyad caliphs (632-750 CE). The articles (five of which originally appeared in languages other than English and are translated here) trace the crystallization of key ...
Early Islamic Poetry and Poetics
1st Edition
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By Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
October 19, 2009
This volume brings together a set of key studies on classical Arabic poetry (ca. 500-1000 C.E.), published over the last thirty-five years; the individual articles each deal with a different approach, period, genre, or theme. The major focus is on new interpretations of the form and function of the...
The Expansion of the Early Islamic State
1st Edition
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By Fred M. Donner
May 21, 2008
This volume presents a selection of the key studies in which leading scholars since the beginning of the 20th century attempt to explain the phenomenally rapid expansion of the early Islamic state during the 7th century CE. The articles debate the causes for the conquest movement or expansion, the ...
The Early Islamic Grammatical Tradition
1st Edition
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By Ramzi Baalbaki
February 28, 2007
The last decades have witnessed a major resurgence of interest in the Arabic grammatical tradition. Many of the issues on which previous scholarship focused - for example, foreign influences on the beginnings of grammatical activity, and the existence of grammatical "schools" - have been revisited,...
The Turks in the Early Islamic World
1st Edition
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By C. Edmund Bosworth
February 28, 2007
This volume brings together a set of key articles, along with a new introduction to contextualize them, on the role of Turkish peoples in the Western Asiatic world up to the 11th century. Such topics as the geographical and environmental original milieux of these peoples in the forest zone and ...
The Development of Islamic Ritual
1st Edition
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By Gerald Hawting
July 28, 2006
This volume is concerned with the origins, development and character of ritual in Islam. The focus is upon the rituals associated with the five 'pillars of Islam': the credal formula, prayer, alms, fasting and pilgrimage. Since the 19th century academic scholarship has sought to investigate Muslim ...
Arab-Byzantine Relations in Early Islamic Times
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By Michael Bonner
September 12, 2005
The Byzantine Empire was the Islamic commonwealth’s first and most stubborn adversary. For many centuries it loomed large in Islamic diplomacy, military operations and commerce, as well as in Islamic representations of the world in general. Moreover, the ways in which early Muslims and Byzantines ...