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The story of the origins of Islam provides a rich and suggestive example of sweeping cultural transformation. Incorporating both innovation and continuity, Islam built upon the existing cultural patterns among the peoples of the Arabian peninsula even as it threatened to eradicate these same pattern...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bamyeh, Mohammed A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1999.
Temas:
Islam > Origin.
Islam > Origines.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Civilization
Islam > Origin
Social conditions
Arabian Peninsula > Civilization.
Arabian Peninsula > Social conditions.
Arabie (Péninsule) > Civilisation.
Arabie (Péninsule) > Conditions sociales.
Arabian Peninsula
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The story of the origins of Islam provides a rich and suggestive example of sweeping cultural transformation. Incorporating both innovation and continuity, Islam built upon the existing cultural patterns among the peoples of the Arabian peninsula even as it threatened to eradicate these same patterns. In this provocative interdisciplinary study, Mohammed A. Bamyehcombines perspectives from sociology, literary studies, anthropology, and economic history to examine the cultural ecology that fostered Islam.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780816689842
0816689849

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