The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allah and His People

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Автор: Aziz Al-Azmeh

Название: The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allah and His People

Язык: English

Издательство: New York: Cambridge University Press

Год: 2014

Формат: pdf

Размер: 11,3 mb

Страниц: 654

Based on epigraphic and other material evidence as well as more traditional literary sources and critical review of the extensive relevant scholarship, this book presents a comprehensive and innovative reconstruction of the rise of Islam as a religion and imperial polity. It reassesses the development of the imperial monotheism of the New Rome, and considers the history of the Arabs as an integral part of Late Antiquity, including Arab ethnogenesis and the emergence of what was to become Muslim monotheism, comparable with the emergence of other monotheisms from polytheistic systems. Topics discussed include the emergence and development of the Muhammadan polity and its new cultic deity and associated ritual, the constitution of the Muslim canon, and the development of early Islam as an imperial religion.

Intended principally for scholars of Late Antiquity, Islamic studies and the history of religions, the book opens up many novel directions for future research.

List of maps andfigures ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgements xix

1. Late Antiquity and Islam: historiography and history 1

The setting of Late Antiquity 2

Mutation, decadence and religion 5

Antiquity and Late Antiquity in space and time II

Antistrophe and translation: Rome, New' Rome, imperial translation 18

The location of Islam 31

History and comparativism 41

2. Gods, divine economies and emperors 47

Cults and theonyms 49

The profusion of syncretism 57

Patterns of syncretism 64

Polytheistic transitions 73

The sublimation of fetishism 79

From pantheon to pantheos 87

Empire sublimated 92

3 Arabia and Arab ethnogenesis in Late Antiquity 100

Al-Arab al-‘Ariba and al-Arab al-Musta‘riba IO3

Al-Arab al-Musta‘riba: alliances of late antique empire II4

Al-Arab al-Musta‘riba: mechanisms of control 126

Networks of articulation 133

The Arab tongue I46

The Hijaz unfurled 154

4 Preface to Allah 164

Lineaments of Arab religion 164

The scatter of theonyms 167

Time: celestial and cultic 183

Mecca: the order of sacred time and space 194

Cultic religion and fleeting energies 204

Contending with the preternatural 223

Arabian monolatry and ambient monotheism 248

Appendix: note on scholarship TjG

5 Allah 279

Nomenclature 282

Palco-Muslim divinity 306

The connotative expansion of divinity 315

Space, time and divinity reconfigured З26

God manifest 346

6 Paleo-Islam 1: charismatic polity 358

Muhammad and his people 36o

Scatterings of creed 368

Confederation and dominion 372

Charismatic authority amplified 381

Consolidation and scalar extension 388

The ‘burden of Islam’ 403

Qibla: ritual space distended 419

Lineaments of imperial religion 428

7 Paleo-Islam 2: the Paleo-Muslim canon 431

A book of divine enunciation 432

Forms of enunciation 437

Nature of the pre-literary canon 449

Making the literary canon 465

A final note on Qur’anic Biblicism 488

8 Retrospective and prospective: Islam in Late Antiquity and beyond 498

Appropriation 500

Distinction 510

Bibliography 528

Abbreviations

Works of reference 529

Material sources 531

Late antique and medieval arabic sources 533

Ancient, late antique and medieval sources in other languages 540

Modern works 542

Name index 615

Subject index 624