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Early Islamic History (Hardcover, New)
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Early Islamic History (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies
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Insight into the origins and early development of Islam has become
relevant not only to the specialist, but underlies a thorough
understanding of debates relating to Islam and the Middle East in
the contemporary period. Over the past decades, the field has seen
the publication of some excellent in-depth studies on aspects of
Islamic history 600-1000 CE, and has also undergone a revision of
its own boundaries. Some studies have thus placed the origins of
Islam in the wider context of Late Antiquity, and argued for an
examination of the development of Islam as a religion and
civilization in a broader monotheistic and Mediterranean context.
Moreover, the historiographic debates of the 1970s are far from
resolved: in the seventies a new critical approach to the study of
early Islamic history emerged, often described as the sceptical or
revisionist approach. Questioning the reliability of the Muslim
tradition about Islamic origins, the 'revisionists' also at times
suggested that it is impossible to recover any kernel of historical
truth (what 'actually happened'). Their assumptions and findings
have been (and continue to be) criticized in numerous works, though
not often in sustained or comprehensive manners. More recently, the
field has witnessed a return to more 'conventional' approaches,
where attempts are made to recover and reconstruct aspects of early
Islamic history by analysis of the transmission history of hadith
traditions and their chains of narrators. An understanding of the
sources and the historiography thus remains pivotal to discussions
of early Islamic history. This important issue is addressed
particularly in the first volume, and in a thorough introduction
which draws together the main themes and developments of the
period. Early Years of Islam provides excellent reference work and
very useful teaching material for a number of different university
level courses, in subjects including History, Area Studies,
Religious Studies, and Islamic Studies.
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