Studies in the origins of early Islamic culture and tradition / Michael Cook.

In contrast to the gradual formation of the high cultures of most of the world, the process by which Islamic civilisation emerged and took on its classical form between the 7th and 9th centuries was unusually sudden. The studies collected here are concerned with aspects of this remarkable developmen...

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Main Author: Cook, Michael, 1940-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The origins of Kalam (Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 43. London, 1980)
  • Pharaonic history in medieval Egypt (Studia Islamica, fasc. 57. Paris, 1983)
  • Magian cheese: an archaic problem in Islamic law (Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 47. London, 1984)
  • Early Islamic dietary law (Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 7. Jerusalem, 1986)
  • 'Anan and Islam: the origins of Karaite scripturalism (Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 9. Jerusalem, 1987)
  • Weber and Islamic sects (Max Weber & Islam, ed. Toby E. Huff and Wolfgang Schluchter. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 1999)
  • The Heraclian dynasty in Muslim eschatology (Al-Qantara, vol. 13. Madrid, 1992)
  • Eschatology and the dating of traditions (Princeton Papers in Near Eastern Studies, No. 1. Princeton, 1992)
  • An early Islamic apocalyptic chronicle (Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 52. Chicago, 1993)
  • The opponents of the writing of tradition in early Islam (Arabica, vol. 44. Leiden, 1997)
  • Ibn Qutayba and the monkeys (Studia Islamica, fasc. 89. Paris, 1999)
  • A Koranic codex inherited by Malik from his grandfather (Graeco-Arabica, vols. 7-8. Athens, 2000)