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Before and After Muhammad

Fowden, Garth

2013,2014

Overview

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 Muhammadsuggests 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. InBefore 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.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Abbasid Caliphate / Ancient / Ancient history / Arabs / Aristotelianism / Augustine of Hippo / Avicenna / Bible / Byzantine commonwealth / Caliphate / Central Asia / Christendom / Christian / Christian scripture / Christianity / Christianity and Islam / Christianization / Church Fathers / Church of the East / Civilisation ancienne / Civilisation médiévale / Civilization, Ancient / Civilization, Ancient fast (OCoLC)fst00862946 / Civilization, Ancient nli / Civilization, Classical / Civilization, Classical fast (OCoLC)fst00862996 / Civilization, Medieval / Civilization, Medieval fast (OCoLC)fst00863049 / Civilization, Medieval nli / Ctesiphon / Doctrine / Early Middle Ages / Early Muslim conquests / Eastern Mediterranean / Erudition / Exegesis / Frühmittelalter gnd / General history of ancient world / God / Hellenistic period / Historiography / HISTORY / HISTORY / Ancient / General / HISTORY / Europe / Medieval / Intellectual history / Islam / Islam -- History -- To 1500 / Islam gnd / Islamic civilization / Islamic civilization fast (OCoLC)fst01730294 / Islamic civilization nli / Jews / Josef Strzygowski / Judaism / Kafir / Late Antiquity / Late Greek / Mani (prophet) / Manichaeism / Medieval / Middle Ages / Modernity / Monotheism / Monotheism -- History -- To 1500 / Monotheism fast (OCoLC)fst01025714 / Muslim / Muslim world / Narrative / Near East / North Africa / Orthodoxy / Ottoman Empire / Periodisierung gnd / Periodization / Philosopher / Philosophy / Platonism / Polemic / Rabbinic Judaism / RELIGION / RELIGION / Christianity / General / RELIGION / Islam / History / Religion and civilization -- History -- To 1500 / Religion and civilization -- History -- To 1500 nli / Religion and civilization fast (OCoLC)fst01093821 / Religions / Religious text / Roman Empire / Roman Law / Safavid dynasty / Sasanian Empire / Shia Islam / Spread of Islam / Spätantike gnd / Sunni Islam / Syriac Christianity / The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Theology / To 1500 fast / Umayyad Caliphate / Writing / Zoroaster / Zoroastrianism
• ISBN: 1400848164, 9781400848164, 9780691168401, 0691168407, 0691158533, 9780691158532