Routledge Handbook on Early Islam

ISBN-13: 9781138821187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 392 str.

Herbert Berg

Opis

The history of early Islam or origins of Islam remains highly contested. From the beginning of modern scholarship on this formative period, scholars have questioned traditional Muslim accounts. Scholarly fixation on early Islam is mirrored by sectarian rivalries between Sunnis and Shi is, both of whom trace their origins to this period and continue to engage in apologetics and polemics based on this period. Moreover, contemporary movements from Salafists to modernists (and even the New Atheists) point to Islam s origins to justify their positions. In other words, almost every major debate in the study of Islam and among Muslims about Islam s beliefs, practices, institutions, etc. look to the formative period of Islam.

As a result there is no shortage of specialized scholarly literature on this period, but there is no definitive overview of the whole subject area aimed at academics and intelligent non-specialists. Thus the "Routledge Handbook on Early Islam" presents an opportunity to fill an important gap and make a lasting contribution to Islamic Studies."

Spis treści

Introduction, Herbert Berg  Part I: The Qurʾān and Muḥammad  1. The Qurʾān, Nicolai Sinai  2. The Qurʾān and other scriptures, David Cook  3. The collection and canonization of the Qurʾān, Herbert Berg  4. Muḥammad, Stephen J. Shoemaker  5. The sīra, Pavel Pavlovitch  6. Ḥadīth and sunna, Jens Scheiner  7. Exegesis, Michael E. Pregill  Part II: Identities and communities in early Islam  8. Identity and social formation in the early Caliphate, Peter Webb  9. Pre-Islamic Arabia and early Islam, Ilkka Lindstedt  10. Early Muslims and peoples of the book, Fred M. Donner  11. Politics and economics of the early Caliphate, Fanny Bessard  12. The myth of the "Shīʿī Perspective”: identity and memory in Early Islam, Najam Haider  13. Mysticism in early Islam: The Pre-compilations phase, Sara Sviri Part III: Modern and contemporary reinterpretation of early Islam  14. Modernists and their opponents: reading Islam, Simon Wood  15. The golden age and the contemporary political order: the Muslim Brotherhood and early Islam, Rachel M. Scott  16. Salafīs: past to present, present to past, Jeffrey T. Kenney  17. Feminist Muslim (re)interpretations of early Islam, Aisha Geissinger Part IV: Revisioning early Islam  18. Early Islam: an alternative scenario of its emergence, Markus Gross  19. Qurʾānists, Daniel W. Brown  20. In search of authenticity: modern discourse over homosexuality through early Islam, Sara Omar  21. True history in black and white: reimagined origins in the Nation of Islam, Herbert Berg  22. Invocations of early Islam in US discourse(s) of Muslim pluralism , Justine Howe

O autorze

Herbert Berg is Professor of Religion in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, and Director of International Studies, University of North Carolina Wilmington. He holds a Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from the University of Toronto. His research focuses on Islamic origins, the Nation of Islam, and method and theory in the study of early Islam.