This is a controversial study of the origins of Islamic civilisation, first published in 1977. By examining non-Muslim sources, the authors point out the intimate link between the Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam. As a serious, scholarly attempt to open up a new, exploratory path of Islamic history, the book has already engendered much debate. This paperback edition will make the authors' conclusions widely accessible to teachers and students of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
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This is a controversial study of the origins of Islamic civilisation, first published in 1977. By examining non-Muslim sources, the authors point out the intimate link between the Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam. As a serious, scholarly attempt to open up a new, exploratory path of Islamic history, the book has already engendered much debate. This paperback edition will make the authors' conclusions widely accessible to teachers and students of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
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Add this copy of Hagarism: the Making of the Islamic World to cart. $427.00, good condition, Sold by Arches Bookhouse rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1977 by Cambridge University Press.
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GOOD. 12mo, sewn binding in Black cloth-effect paper over boards. Ex-libris Joel Kraemer, noted University of Chicago scholar of medieval Islam and Judaism, with his signature to FFEP. With a press photo of Patricia Crone from the Israel Sun, a Tel-Aviv newspaper. Kraemer's scant penciling, mainly marginal checks and occasional neat underlining, foxing to top edge, small coffee stain to p. 116 and adjacents; Sound and square otherwise with tight binding. Crone & Cook's long out-of-print religionsgeschichte was a seminal contribution to Islamic Historiography, appropriating for Islamic origins a scholarly approach that had long been used to explore the antecedents and adjacencies of Jewish and Christian beginnings. In spite of its controversial theses questioning the reliability of Islamic accounts of their own history--some of which were walked back by the authors--it remains a valuable and sought-after book, one which birthed the 'Revisionist School' of Islamic studies.
