Eastern Rome and the Rise of Islam: History and Prophecy

ISBN-13: 9780815358060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 150 str.

Olof (University of Vienna) Heilo

Opis

This book argues that Islam’s rise is a feature of a common process during which tensions between imperial ambitions and apocalyptic beliefs in Europe and the Middle East cut straight across today’s theological and political definitions.

Recenzje

"This short book is a veritable effort of genuine scholarship and is valuable to students and scholars of Islamic studies, especially for its new perspectives." Issa J. Boullata - Middle East Media and Books Reviews Online

Spis treści

Prologue 1. A Broken Colossus 2. Taming Leviathan 3. Shadows at Dusk 4. Eyes in the Dark 5. New Horizons 6. Cultural Capitals Epilogue

O autorze

Olof Heilo obtained his PhD at the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies in Vienna and is currently teaching history at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Lund.