Remapping Emergent Islam

Remapping Emergent Islam

Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories

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.
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
    • Carlos A. Segovia
  • Part 1: Re-Assessing the Hypothesis of a Peripheral Jewish Background
    • 1. South Arabian ‘Judaism’, Ḥimyarite Raḥmanism, and the Origins of Islam
      • Aaron W. Hughes
    • 2. Early Islam as a Messianic Movement: A Non-Issue?
      • José Costa
  • Part 2: An Encrypted Manichaean / Messalian Matrix?
    • 3. The Astral Messenger, The Lunar Revelation, The Solar Salvation: Dualist Cosmic Soteriology in The Early Qur’ān
      • Daniel A. Beck
    • 4. Messalianism, Binitarianism, and the East-Syrian Background of the Qur’ān
      • Carlos A. Segovia
  • Part 3: Measuring the World’s Timeline… and Imagining the Afterlife at the Persian Court?
    • 5. The Jewish and Christian Background of the Earliest Islamic Liturgical Calendar
      • Basil Lourié
    • 6. The Persian Keys of the Quranic Paradise
      • Gilles Courtieu
  • Part 4: Conceptual Quicksand, Meta-Narratives of Identity, Texts and their Marginalia
    • 7. Divine Attributes of ‘Alī in Shi’i Mysticism:New Remarks on ‘Heresy’ in Early Islam
      • Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
    • 8. Echoes of Pseudepigrapha in the Qur’ān
      • Tommaso Tesei
    • 9. What Do We Mean by THE Qur’ān: On Origins, Fragments, and Inter-Narrative Identity
      • Emilio González Ferrín

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