Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 5 Bibliography and Indices

Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 5 Bibliography and Indices
Author: Josef van Ess
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2020-06-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004402845

Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of the time as an unparalleled reference work. The volume consists of a Bibliography, followed by an Index of Names, an Index of Works and a General Index.

Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 4

Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 4
Author: Josef van Ess
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 839
Release: 2018-10-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004381597

Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of time as an unparalleled reference work.

Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī: Treatise on Divine Unity According to the Doctrine of the Christians

Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī: Treatise on Divine Unity According to the Doctrine of the Christians
Author: Giovanni Mandolino
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2023-10-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004546502

How do intellectual traditions interact? This is the fundamental question driving this book, which explores a case study set in the early Islamicate world: the Treatise on Divine Unity According to the Doctrine of the Christians by the Christian-Arabic theologian and philosopher Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī (d. 974). The book attempts to contextualise the treatise and its intellectual environment by exploring the interplay between philosophy, Christian theology and Islam. This volume includes a revised Arabic text of Samir’s 2015 edition, collated with the manuscript Tehran, Madrasa-yi Marwī 19, recently discovered by prof. Robert Wisnovsky.

Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 2

Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 2
Author: Josef van Ess
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 856
Release: 2017-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004344020

Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of time as an unparalleled reference work.

The Christian Encounter with Muhammad

The Christian Encounter with Muhammad
Author: Charles Tieszen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1350191221

This book offers a fresh appraisal of Muhammad that considers the widest possible history of the ways in which Christians have assessed his prophethood. To medieval Christian communities, Muhammad-the leader of a religious and political community that grew quickly and with relative success-was an enigma. Did God really send him as a prophet with a revelation? Was the political success of the community he founded a divine validation? Or were he and his followers inspired by something evil? Despite their attempts, modern Christians continued to be puzzled by Muhammad. The Qur'an provided a framework for understanding and honouring Jesus; was it possible for Christians to reciprocate with regard to Muhammad? This book applies the same analysis to both medieval and modern assessments of Muhammad, in order to demonstrate the continuities and disparities present in literature from the two eras.

Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra

Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra
Author: Josef van Ess
Publisher: Handbook of Oriental Studies
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004399624

Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of the time as an unparalleled reference work. The volume consists of a separate Bibliography, a General Index, an Index of Names, an Index of Works and an Index of Other Sources.

German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut

German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut
Author: Julia Hauser
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2015-04-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004290788

In German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut. Competing Missions, Julia Hauser offers a critical analysis of the German Protestant Kaiserswerth deaconesses’ orphanage and boarding school for girls in late Ottoman Beirut as situated within the larger field of educational development in the city. Drawing, among other sources, on the deaconesses’ largely unpublished letters home, her study illuminates that the only way missionary organizations like the deaconesses' could succeed was by entering into negotiations with their local environment, adapting their agenda in the process. Mission, therefore, was shaped not merely at home, but by conflictual negotiations on the periphery ‒ a perspective quite different from the top-down isolationist perspective of earlier research on missions.

Sociology of Shiʿite Islam

Sociology of Shiʿite Islam
Author: Saïd Amir Arjomand
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2016-07-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004326278

Sociology of Shiʿite Islam is a comprehensive study of the development of Shiʿism. Its bearers first emerged as a sectarian elite, then a hierocracy and finally a theocracy. Imamate, Occultation and the theodicy of martyrdom are identified as the main components of the Shiʻism as a world religion. In these collected essays Arjomand has persistenly developed a Weberian theoretical framework for the analysis of Shiʿism, from its sectarian formation in the eighth century through the establishment of the Safavid empire in the sixteenth century, to the Islamic revolution in Iran in the twentieth century. These studies highlight revolutionary impulses embedded in the belief in the advent of the hidden Imam, and the impact of Shiʻite political ethics on the authority structure of pre-modern Iran and the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Transnational Religious Organization and Practice

Transnational Religious Organization and Practice
Author: Stanley J. Valayil C. John
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2018-02-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004361014

In Transnational Religious Organization and Practice Stanley John provides the first in-depth analysis of a migrant Christian community in the Arabian Gulf. The book explores how Kerala (South India) Pentecostal churches in Kuwait organize and practice their Christian faith, given the status of their congregants as temporary economic migrants and noting that the transient status heightens their transnational orientation toward their homeland in India. The research follows a twofold agenda: first, examining the unique sociopolitical and migrational context within which the KPCs function, and second, analyzing the transnational character and structural patterns that have emerged in this context. The ethnographic research identifies and analyzes the emerging structures and practices of the KPCs through three lenses: networks, agents, and mission. This study concludes with a proposal for an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to be employed in the study of transnational religious communities.