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Muslim Studies - Volume 1 (Hardcover)
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Muslim Studies - Volume 1 (Hardcover)
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This is the first volume of Goldziher's Muslim Studies, which ranks
highly among the classics of the scholarly literature on Islam.
Indeed, the two volumes, originally published in German in
1889-1890, can justly be counted among those that laid the
foundations of the modern study of Islam as a religion and a
civilization.The first study deals with the reaction of Islam to
the ideals of Arab tribal society, to the attitudes of early Islam
to the various nationalities and more especially the Persians, and
culminates in the chapter on the Shu'ubiya movement which
represents the reaction of the newly converted peoples, and again
more especially the Persians, to the idea of Arab superiority. The
second essay is the famous study on the development of the Hadith,
the "Traditions" ascribed to Muhammed, in which the Hadith is shown
to reflect the various trends of early Islam: Goldziher's name is
mainly associated with the critical study of the Hadith, of which
this essay is the chief monument. The third essay is about the cult
of saints, which, though contrary to the spirit and letter of the
earliest Islam, played such an important part in its subsequent
development.These essays, with the author's marvelous richness of
information, profound historical sense, and sympathetic insight
into the motive forces of religion and civilization, are today as
fresh as at the time of their original publication and their
reissue is indispensable for the growing number of students of
Islam. Hamid Dabashi contributes a major eighty-five-page study of
Goldziher's life and scholarship, situating both in the
intellectual and political currents of his own time while
evaluating his work in the context of the current debate over
Orientalism.
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