The formation of Islam [electronic resource] : religion and society in the Near East, 600-1800 / Jonathan P. Berkey.

Jonathan Berkey's book surveys the religious history of the peoples of the Near East from roughly 600 to 1800 CE. The opening chapter examines the religious scene in the Near East in late antiquity, and the religious traditions which preceded Islam. Subsequent chapters investigate Islam's...

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Main Author: Berkey, Jonathan Porter
Other title:Religion and society in the Near East, 600-1800.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Themes in Islamic history ; v. 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Near East before Islam:
  • Introduction
  • Religions of late antiquity
  • Arabia before Islam
  • Early seventh century
  • Part II. The Emergence of Islam, 600-750:
  • Approaches and problems
  • Origins of the Muslim community
  • Early Islam in the Near East
  • Umayyad period
  • Beginnings of sectarianism
  • Non-Muslims of early Islam
  • 'Abbasid revolution
  • Part III. The Consolidation of Islam, 750-1000:
  • Issues of Islamic identity
  • Religion and politics
  • Shi'ism
  • Formation of Sunni traditionalism
  • Asceticism and mysticism
  • Non-Muslim communities
  • Part IV. Medieval Islam, 1000-1500:
  • Medieval Islamic Near East
  • Sunni 'revival'?
  • Common patterns in social and political organization
  • Modes of justice
  • Transmission of religious knowledge
  • Sufism
  • Popular religion
  • Epilogue:
  • From medieval to modern Islam.