Before and after Muhammad : the first millennium refocused /
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Language: English
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2014].
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Call Number: DS36.85 .F69 2014
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Including Islam The West and the Rest Edward Gibbon Islam and late Antiquity Summary
- Chapter 2. Time: Beyond Late Antiquity The roots of late antique studies Burckhardt to Strzygowski The Orient and Islam: Views from Vienna Pirenne to the present
- Chapter 3. A New Periodization: The First Millennium Decline versus transformation Maturations Monotheist historiography For and against the First Millennium
- Chapter 4. Space: An Eastward Shift Discovering the Mediterranean Discovering the East Empires and commonwealths The Mountain Arena
- Chapter 5. Exegetical Cultures 1: Aristotelianism Greek Aristotelianism Christian polemic Aristode in Latin, Armenian, and Syriac Alexandria to Baghdad Arabic Aristotelianism
- Chapter 6. Exegetical Cultures 2: Law and Religion Roman law Rabbinic Judaism Patristic Christianity Islam
- Chapter 7. Viewpoints Around 1000: Tus, Basra, Baghdad, Pisa Tus/Iran Basra/Encyclopedism Baghdad/Rationality Pisa/The Latin West Prospects for Further Research
- Map: The Eurasian Hinge, with Circum-Arabian Trade Routes