The emergence of Islam in late antiquity : Allah and his people / Aziz Al-Azmeh.
The emergence of Islam in late antiquity : Allah and his people / Aziz Al-Azmeh.
The emergence of Islam in late antiquity : Allah and his people / Aziz Al-Azmeh.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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G 2015/1018
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English
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Physical content
xxi, 634 pages : illustration, maps ; 24 cm + [1] folder attached to last page.
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text
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unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Late antiquity and Islam: historiography and history -- Gods, divine economies and emperors -- Arabia and Arab ethnogenesis in late antiquity -- Preface to Allāh -- Allāh -- Paleo-Islam 1: charismatic polity -- Paleo-Islam 2: the Paleo-Muslim canon -- Retrospective and prospective: Islam in late a...
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2014.
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"Based on a critical review of the relevant scholarship, and with the use of epigraphic and other material evidence as well as more traditional sources, 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, an...
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The emergence of Islam in late antiquity : Allah and his people / Aziz Al-Azmeh.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 528-614) and index.
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G 2015/1018
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74VKO07Oy8bM
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ISBN
1107031877 (hardback)
9781107031876 (hardback)
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297.09/021
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991022628319702626
