Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam

ISBN-13: 9781032178196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 260 str.

John Tolan

Opis

Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam represents an important contribution and a valuable resource to the burgeoning field of comparative history of the Abrahamic religions.

Spis treści

Introduction

JOHN TOLAN

PART I: Narratives of triumph and defeat

1 The contours of Abrahamic identity:

a Zoroastrian perspective

YISHAI KIEL

2 The twilight of the ancient gods

DANUTA SHANZER

3 Simon the god: imagining the other in second-century Christianity

DUNCAN E. MACRAE

4 Contested ground in Gaza: the narrative of triumphalist Christianity

CLAUDIA RAPP

5 Between Jerome and Augustine of Hippo: some intellectual preoccupations of Late Antiquity

MOHAMED-ARBI NSIRI

PART II: Forging legal paradigms

6 What is “Islamic” about geonic depictions of the Oral Torah?

MARC HERMAN

7 Reevaluating the role of the Epigones (tabiʿun) in the formation of Islamic ritual and jurisprudence

MOHAMMED HOCINE BENKHEIRA

8 Recording debts in Sufyānid Fusṭāṭ: a reexamination of the procedures and calendar in use in the first/seventh century

MATHIEU TILLIER AND NAÏM VANTHIEGHEM

9 Slavery and sexual ethics: divergence and change in Hanafi legal discourse

KAREN MOUKHEIBER

PART III: Contemporary echoes

10 Teaching early Islam: the gap between school and the internet in British schooling

PHILIP WOOD

11 The Shahada and the creation of an Islamic identity

SULEIMAN A. MOURAD

 

O autorze

John Tolan has studied at Yale University, USA (BA Classics), University of Chicago, USA (MA and PhD History) and the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (HDR); he is Professor of History at the University of Nantes, France and member of the Academia Europaea. He has been awarded numerous prizes and distinctions, including two major grants from the European Research Council and the Prix Diane Potier-Boès from the Académie Française (2008). He is author of numerous articles and books, including Petrus Alfonsi and His Medieval Readers (1993), Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination (2002), Sons of Ishmael (2008), Saint Francis and the Sultan (2009) and Muhammad the European (2019).