The richness of myth in Arab-Islamic culture has long been ignored or even denied. In Muhammad and the Golden Bough Jaroslav Stetkevych demonstrates the existence of a coherent pre-Islamic Arabian myth that was subsequently incorporated into Islamic poetic tradition and the Dur'an

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1. Verfasser:	Stetkevych, Jaroslav 1929- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Bloomington [u.a.] Indiana Univ. Press 1996
Schlagworte:	Muḥammad <Prophet, d. 632> > Legends Muḥammad > 570-632 Arabieren Islam Mythen Mythology > Comparative studies Mythology, Arab Thamud (Arabian people) Mythologie
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Zusammenfassung:	The richness of myth in Arab-Islamic culture has long been ignored or even denied. In Muhammad and the Golden Bough Jaroslav Stetkevych demonstrates the existence of a coherent pre-Islamic Arabian myth that was subsequently incorporated into Islamic poetic tradition and the Dur'an The book dissects the intriguing Arab-Islamic myth built around Muhammad's unearthing of a "golden bough" from the grave of the last survivor of an ancient Arab people, the Thamud, who, according to the myth, were destroyed by a divine scourge for their iniquity. In the myth the episode of the slaying of the she-camel of the prophet Salih, which precipitates the downfall of the Thamud, is symbolically linked with Muhammad, the discoverer of the golden bough . Through its development of a methodology for analyzing the mythic and folkloric material of pre-Islamic Arabia and the process of its incorporation into Islamic myth and Qur'anic exegesis, Muhammad and the Golden Bough offers compelling insights for students of Islam, comparative religion, and anthropology
Beschreibung:	XI, 169 S.
ISBN:	0253332087