Society and Religion from Jahiliyya to Islam

ISBN-13: 9780860782773 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 352 str.

M J Kister

Opis

In this second collection of his articles, Professor Kister has continued his investigation into the social and religious history of Arabia. The papers are based essentially on a study of the traditions preserved in the early Arabic sources, many unpublished. As the author demonstrates, these sources represent an invaluable mine of information on the history and religious life of prea Islamic Arabia and on the transformations that affected customs, law and beliefs after the coming of Islam. Particular articles also deal with such questions as the relations and confrontation between nascent Islam and Judaism and Christianity, the contacts between tribal society and sedentary population, and the emergence of new popular customs and beliefs. Dans ce second receuil da articles, le professeur Kister, poursuit ses recherches sur la histoire sociale et religieuse de la Arabie. Les essais sont essentiellement bases sur une etude des traditions conservees par les premieres sources arabes, dont beaucoup na ont jamais ete publiees. Ainsi que la auteur le demontre, ces sources representent une mine da information inestimable sur la vie religieuse et la histoire de la Arabie prea islamique et sur les changements qui affecterent coutumes, lois et croyances apres la avenement de la Islam. Certains articles, traitent plus particulierement, de sujets, tels les rapports et les affrontements entre la force naissante de la Islam et le JudaA-sme et Christianisme prea existants; ou encore des contacts entre societe tribale et population sedentaire, ainsi que de la emergence de nouvelles coutumes et croyances poulaires."

Recenzje

'Following up on Kister’s earlier Variorum volume (Studies in Ja-hiliyya and Early Islam, 1980), it makes his research up to the mid-1980s readily available in convenient form.' Der Islam

Spis treści

Contents: Labbayka, allahumma, labbayka...: on a monotheistic aspect of a Jahiliyya practice (with additional notes); Mecca and the tribes of Arabia; Notes on Caskel's Jamharat an nasab; A work of Ibnal-Kalbi on the Arab peninsula; 'On the wife of the goldsmith of Fadak and her progeny': a study in Jahili genealogical traditions; On an early fragment of the Qur'an; 'O God tighten thy grip on Mudar..': some socio - economic and religious aspects of an early hadith; The massacre of the Band Qurayza: a re-examination of a tradition; ...illa bi-haqqihi...: a study of an early hadith; 'Pare your nails': a study of an early tradition; Sha' ban is my month': a study of an early tradition; 'Call yourselves by graceful names' (with additional notes); On 'concessions' and conduct: a study in early hadith; The interpretation of dreams: an unknown manuscript of Ibn Qutayba's ’Ibarat al-ru’ya; An yadin (Qur'an IX, 29): an attempt at interpretation; Index.