Studies in the Origins of Early Islamic Culture and Tradition

by Cook,Michael

• ISBN13: 9780860789161
• ISBN10: 0860789160
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

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 development. Their topics are varied, including the emergence of dialectical theology, the origins of accounts of Pharaonic history current in medieval Egypt, the sources of Muslim dietary law, the Islamic background of Karaism, and Max Weber's views on Islamic sects. Other articles look at early Syrian eschatology and its connections with late antiquity and Byzantium, at the relevance of eschatology to debates about the dating of traditions, and at the attitudes of the early traditionists to the writing down of tradition. The final items examine reports about the textual affiliations of a long-lost Koranic codex and discussions of adultery among the baboons of Yemen. A recurring theme is the relationship between Early Muslim ideas and those of non-Muslim cultures, sometimes very ancient ones.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
I The origins of kalam	32	(35)
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 43. London, 1980
II Pharaonic history in medieval Egypt	67	(382)
Studia Islamica, fasc. 57. Paris, 1983
III Magian cheese: an archaic problem in Islamic law	449
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 47. London, 1984
IV Early Islamic dietary law	217
Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 7. Jerusalem, 1986
V 'Arian and Islam: the origins of Karaite scripturalism	161	(112)
Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 9. Jerusalem, 1987
VI Weber and Islamic sects	273
Max Weber & Islam, ed. Toby E. Huff and Wolfgang Schluchter. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 1999
VII The Heraclian dynasty in Muslim eschatology	3	(20)
Al-Qantara, vol. 13. Madrid, 1992
VIII Eschatology and the dating of traditions	23	(2)
Princeton Papers in Near Eastern Studies, No. 1. Princeton, 1992
IX An early Islamic apocalyptic chronicle	25	(412)
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 52. Chicago, 1993
X The opponents of the writing of tradition in early Islam	437
Arabica, vol. 44. Leiden, 1997
XI Ibn Qutayba and the monkeys	43	(50)
Studia Islamica, fasc. 89. Paris, 1999
XII A Koranic codex inherited by Malik from his grandfather	93
Graeco-Arabica, vols. 7-8. Athens, 2000
Index	1