Routledge Handbook on Early Islam 1st Edition by Herbert Berg ISBN 978-1138821187 1138821187

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Author: Herbert Berg

The formative period of Islam remains highly contested. From the beginning of modern scholarship on this formative period, scholars have questioned traditional Muslim accounts on early Islam. The scholarly fixation is mirrored by sectarian groups and movements within Islam, most of which trace their origins to this period. Moreover, contemporary movements from Salafists to modernists continue to point to Islam’s origins to justify their positions.

This Handbook provides a definitive overview of early Islam and how this period was understood and deployed by later Muslims. It is split into four main parts, the first of which explores the debates and positions on the critical texts and figures of early Islam. The second part turns to the communities that identified their origins with the Qurʾān and Muḥammad. In addition to the development of Muslim identities and polities, of particular focus is the relationship with groups outside or movements inside of the umma (the collective community of Muslims). The third part looks beyond what happened from the 7th to the 9th centuries CE and explores what that period, the events, figures, and texts have meant for Muslims in the past and what they mean for Muslims today. Not all Muslims or scholars are willing to merely reinterpret early Islam and its sources, though; some are willing to jettison parts, or even all, of the edifice that has been constructed over almost a millennium and a half. The Handbook therefore concludes with discussions of re-imaginations and revisions of early Islam and its sources.

Almost every major debate in the study of Islam and among Muslims looks to the formative period of Islam. The wide range of contributions from many of the leading academic experts on the subject therefore means that this book will be a valuable resource for all students and scholars of Islamic studies, as well as for anyone with an interest in early Islam.

Table of contents: 

Part I: The Qurʾān and Muḥammad
The Qurʾān – Nicolai Sinai

The Qurʾān and Other Scriptures – David Cook

The Collection and Canonization of the Qurʾān – Herbert Berg

Muḥammad – Stephen J. Shoemaker

The Sīra – Pavel Pavlovitch

Ḥadīth and Sunna – Jens Scheiner

Exegesis – Michael E. Pregill

Part II: Identities and Communities in Early Islam
Identity and Social Formation in the Early Caliphate – Peter Webb

Pre-Islamic Arabia and Early Islam – Ilkka Lindstedt

Early Muslims and Peoples of the Book – Fred M. Donner

Politics and Economics of the Early Caliphate – Fanny Bessard

The Myth of the “Shīʿī Perspective”: Identity and Memory in Early Islam – Najam Haider

Mysticism in Early Islam: The Pre-Compilations Phase – Sara Sviri

Part III: Modern and Contemporary Reinterpretation of Early Islam
Modernists and Their Opponents: Reading Islam – Simon Wood

The Golden Age and the Contemporary Political Order: The Muslim Brotherhood and Early Islam – Rachel M. Scott

Salafīs: Past to Present, Present to Past – Jeffrey T. Kenney

Feminist Muslim (Re)Interpretations of Early Islam – Aisha Geissinger

Part IV: Revisioning Early Islam
Early Islam: An Alternative Scenario of Its Emergence – Markus Gross

Qurʾānists – Daniel W. Brown

In Search of Authenticity: Modern Discourse over Homosexuality Through Early Islam – Sara Omar

True History in Black and White: Reimagined Origins in the Nation of Islam

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