Название: The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allah and His People
Автор: Aziz Al-Azmeh
Издательство: New York: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2014
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 654
Размер: 11,3 mb
Язык: English
Text 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
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