Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam)

A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam

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ISBN: 9780878501250
Publisher: Darwin Pr
Published: 1 January, 1998
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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This book offers a new approach to the vexing question of how to write the early history of Islam. The first part discusses the nature of the Muslim and non-Muslim source material for the seventh- and eighth- century Middle East and argues that by lessening the divide between these two traditions, which has largely been erected by modern scholarship, we can come to a better appreciation of this crucial period. The second part gives a detailed survey of sources and an analysis of some 120 non-Muslim texts, all of which provide information about the first century and a half of Islam (roughly AD 620-780). The third part furnishes examples about how one might write the history of this time. The fourth part takes the form of excursus on various topics, such as the process of Islamisation, the phenomenon of conversion to Islam, the development of techniques for determining the direction of prayer, and the conquest of Egypt. Because this work views Islamic history with the aid of non - Muslim texts and assesses the latter in the light of Muslim writings, it will be essential reading for historians of Islam, Christianity, Judaism, or Zoroastrianism -- indeed, for all those with an interest in cultures of the eastern Mediterranean in its transitional phase from Late Antiquity to medieval times.

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