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The social origins of Islam : mind, economy, discourse /
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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©1999.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816689842 0816689849 |