Early Islam: a critical reconstruction based on contemporary sources

"This successor volume to The Hidden Origins of Islam (edited by Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Gerd-R. Puin) continues the pioneering research begun in the first volume into the earliest development of Islam. Using coins, commemorative building inscriptions, and a rigorous linguistic analysis of the Kor...

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Weitere Verfasser: Ohlig, Karl-Heinz 1938-2024 (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amherst, NY Prometheus 2013
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Zusammenfassung:"This successor volume to The Hidden Origins of Islam (edited by Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Gerd-R. Puin) continues the pioneering research begun in the first volume into the earliest development of Islam. Using coins, commemorative building inscriptions, and a rigorous linguistic analysis of the Koran along with Persian and Christian literature from the seventh and eighth centuries...when Islam was in its formative stages...five expert contributors attempt a reconstruction of this critical time period. Despite the scholarly nature of their work, the implications of their discoveries are startling: Islam originally emerged as a sect of Christianity. Its central theological tenets were influenced by a pre-Nicean, Syrian Christianity. Aramaic, the common language throughout the Near East for many centuries and the language of Syrian Christianity, significantly influenced the Arabic script and vocabulary used in the Koran. Finally, it was not until the end of the eighth and ninth centuries that Islam formed as a separate religion, and the Koran underwent a period of historical development of at least 200 years. Controversial and highly intriguing, this critical historical analysis reveals the beginning of Islam in a completely new light".
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Foreword to the English edition / Markus Gross -- Shedding light on the beginnings of Islam / Karl-Heinz Ohlig -- From Ugarit to Sāmarrāʼ : an archeological journey on the trail of Ernst Herzfeld / Volker Popp -- Evidence of a new religion in Christian literature "under Islamic rule"? ; From muḥammad Jesus to prophet of the Arabs : the personalization of a christological epithet / Karl-Heinz Ohlig -- Relics of Syro-Aramaic letters in early Qurʼān codices in Ḥiǧāzī and Kūfi ductus / Christoph Luxenberg -- Read anew : Islam and Parsism (Islamisme et Parsisme) / Ignaz Goldziher, translated by Markus Gross -- The influence of Persian religious patterns on notions in the Qurʼān / Volker Popp -- New ways of Qurʼānic research : from the perspective of comparative linguistics and cultural studies / Markus Gross.
Beschreibung:647 S. Ill. 24 cm
ISBN:9781616148256

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