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Islam, the ancient near east and varieties of godlessness. collected studies in three volumes / Volume 3 :

"Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised articles. The present volume places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world"-...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crone, Patricia, 1945-2015 (Author)
Other Authors: Siurua, Hanna (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : Brill, [2016]
Series:Islamic history and civilization ; v. 131.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • ‎Contents; ‎Editor's Preface; ‎Remarks on Receipt of the 2014 Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Lifetime Achievement Award; ‎List of Original Publications and Acknowledgments; ‎Chapter 1. "Barefoot and Naked": What Did the Bedouin of the Arab Conquests Look Like?; ‎Chapter 2. The Ancient Near East and Islam: The Case of Lot-Casting (); ‎Chapter 3. Idrīs, Atraḫasīs and al-Khiḍr; ‎Chapter 4. Abū Saʻīd al-Ḥaḍrī and the Punishment of Unbelievers; ‎Chapter 5. The Dahrīs According to al-Jāḥiẓ; ‎Chapter 6. Ungodly Cosmologies; ‎Chapter 7. Post-Colonialism in Tenth-Century Islam
  • ‎Chapter 8. What Are Prophets For? The Social Utility of Religion in Medieval Islamic Thought‎Chapter 9. Oral Transmission of Subversive Ideas from the Islamic World to Europe: The Case of the Three Impostors; ‎Chapter 10. How the Field Has Changed in My Lifetime; ‎List of Patricia Crone's Publications; ‎Index of Names and Terms