Muhammad and the Golden Bough

Muhammad and the Golden Bough
Author: Jaroslav Stetkevych
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2000-06-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780253214133

His articles on classical and modern Arabic literature have appeared in Spanish, English, Arabic, and Ukrainian.ContentsIntroduction: Reclaiming Arabian MythThe Textual PuzzleThe Thamudic Backdrop to the PuzzleThe First Answer to the Puzzle: The Raid on TabukThe Totem and the TabooPoeticizing the ThamudDemythologizing the ThamudThe ScreamThe Arabian Golden Bough and Kindred Branches: Frazer, Vergil, Homer, and GilgameshConclusion

An Anxious Inheritance

An Anxious Inheritance
Author: Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2022
Genre: History
ISBN: 0197613470

Introduction -- Part I: Late Antique Fantasies: 1. Qur'ānic Others -- 2. Producing Islam through the Production of Religious Others -- 3. Past Perfect: Opening the Jāhiliyya's Complex Present -- Part II: Subsequent Constructions: 4. Good Jew, Bad Jew -- 5. Making Christians -- 6. Shīʻa: The Other Within -- 7. The Amorphous Zindīq -- Conclusions -- Bibliography.

Arabic Literary Thresholds

Arabic Literary Thresholds
Author: Muhsin Al-Musawi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2009-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9047430336

This volume, dedicated to Jaroslav Stetkevych, includes a number of original contributions that signify a rhetorical shift in the social sciences and Arabic studies. The articles and essays deal with Orientalism, classical Arabic tradition, Andalusian poetry, Francophone literature, translation, architecture and poetry, comparative studies, and Sufism. Literary production is studied in its own terms to situate these literary concerns in the mainstream of cultural studies. The outcome is a solid and highly sophisticated scholarship that makes this book one of the most needed among scholars and students of comparative literature, Arabic poetics and politics, Orientalism, Afro-Asian studies, East/West encounters and translation.

Animal Sacrifice and the Origins of Islam

Animal Sacrifice and the Origins of Islam
Author: Brannon Wheeler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2022-06-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316511863

Uses textual analysis and various types of material evidence to gain insight into the role of animal sacrifice in Islam.

John of Damascus and Islam

John of Damascus and Islam
Author: Peter Schadler
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004356053

How did Islam come to be considered a Christian heresy? In this book, Peter Schadler outlines the intellectual background of the Christian Near East that led John, a Christian serving in the court of the caliph in Damascus, to categorize Islam as a heresy. Schadler shows that different uses of the term heresy persisted among Christians, and then demonstrates that John’s assessment of the beliefs and practices of Muslims has been mistakenly dismissed on assumptions he was highly biased. The practices and beliefs John ascribes to Islam have analogues in the Islamic tradition, proving that John may well represent an accurate picture of Islam as he knew it in the seventh and eighth centuries in Syria and Palestine.

Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qu'ran

Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qu'ran
Author: Issa J Boullata
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136117148

This volume studies how the literary elements in the Qur'an function in conveying its religious message effectively. It is divided into three parts. Part one includes studies of the whole Qur'an or large segments of it belonging to one historical period of its revelation; these studies concentrate on the analysis of its language, its style, its structural composition, its aesthetic characteristics, its rhetorical devices, its imagery, and the impact of these elements and their significance. Part two includes studies on individual suras of the Qur'an, each of which focuses on the sura's literary elements and how they produce meaning; each also explores the structure of this meaning and the coherence of its effect. Part three includes studies on Muslim appreciations of the literary aspects of the Qur'an in past generations and shows how modern linguistic, semantic, semiotic, and literary scholarship can add to their contributions.

Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture

Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture
Author: Matthew Dimmock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1107032911

This book explores how the figure of the Prophet Muhammad was misrepresented in English and wider Christian culture between 1480 and 1735. By tracing the ways in which 'Mahomet' was written and rewritten, contested and celebrated, this study explores notions of identity and religion, and the resonances of this history today.

The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad

The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad
Author: Jonathan E. Brockopp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2010-04-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521886074

A collection of essays by some of the most accomplished scholars in the field exploring the life and legacy of the Prophet.

Key Themes for the Study of Islam

Key Themes for the Study of Islam
Author: Jamal J. Elias
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1780746849

"Key Themes for the Study of Islam" examines the central themes and concepts indispensable to an informed understanding of Islamic religion and society. From Gender and History to Prayer and Prophecy, each authoritative chapter focuses on a single aspect of the religion and presents a critical discussion written by a world expert in that field. Exposing as false the idea that Islam and Muslims are incomprehensible to Western culture, this book will become the first choice for students and experts in religion from disparate fields, who wish to know how Islam relates to vital concepts in religion and society today.

Muslim Identities

Muslim Identities
Author: Aaron Hughes
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2013-04-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0231161476

This well-rounded introduction takes an expansive view of Islamic ideology, culture, and tradition, sourcing a range of historical, sociological, and literary perspectives.