Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures,
yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it.
Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty
years, even generous definitions of this period have reached only
the eighth century, whereas Islam did not mature sufficiently to
compare with Christianity or rabbinic Judaism until the tenth
century. "Before and After Muhammad" suggests a new way of thinking
about the historical relationship between the scriptural
monotheisms, integrating Islam into European and West Asian
history.
Garth Fowden identifies the whole of the First Millennium--from
Augustus and Christ to the formation of a recognizably Islamic
worldview by the time of the philosopher Avicenna--as the proper
chronological unit of analysis for understanding the emergence and
maturation of the three monotheistic faiths across Eurasia. Fowden
proposes not just a chronological expansion of late Antiquity but
also an eastward shift in the geographical frame to embrace
Iran.
In "Before and After Muhammad," Fowden looks at Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam alongside other important developments in
Greek philosophy and Roman law, to reveal how the First Millennium
was bound together by diverse exegetical traditions that nurtured
communities and often stimulated each other.
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