Islamic Origins, Arabian Custom, and the Documents of the Prophet: 17 (Islamic History and Thought) - Image 1

£119.00

Gorgias Press Islamic Origins, Arabian Custom, and the Documents of the Prophet: 17 (Islamic History and Thought)

Name: Islamic Origins, Arabian Custom, and the Documents of the Prophet: 17 (Islamic History and Thought)
Brand: Gorgias Press
Price: 119.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Saudi Arabia

Price History & Forecast

Last 64 days • 64 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 64 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £119 (64 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £119 - £119

Price levels: 1 different prices over 64 days

Description

Along with the Qurʾān and ḥadīth, pragmatic documents negotiating land, taxes, and tribal relations are attributed to the Prophet Muḥammad (~570-632 CE) in early Islamic historiography. These are often viewed as relics reflecting the Prophet’s religio-political mission, or as anachronistic texts spuriously ascribed to him. Challenging both conclusions, this book argues that an indigenous Arabian legal and documentary tradition, distinct from classical Islamic law, can be traced in these documents. Laying out the formularies and formulae of around 200 such documents, these are compared to early Arabic papyri as well as older corpora including Aramaic conveyance documents, Sabaic letters, and Nabataean tomb inscriptions. The book also maps the variation found across medieval redactions of some of the documents; the case of one distinctive legal clause; and the tribal traditions of those who received the documents. The documents of the Prophet maintain a register of everyday transactions and customary law which survives compilation and redaction and is embedded in older local and transregional infrastructures which circulate the language, media, and forms for documents. These documents encourage a reconsideration of the concepts of authorship, literacy, and authenticity applied to medieval texts, as well as the presumed centrality of confessional identity in the legal infrastructures described by medieval Islamic genres such as sīra (biography), ḥadīth (traditions), and taʾrīkh (history). Rather than reflecting authorship as the creative acts of individuals, literacy as the decoding of written text, and authenticity as the faithful transmission of original texts over time, the documents of the Prophet are reflective of transregional communication technologies, customs that trace long-lived, geographically diffuse infrastructures of which formulae are the remnants.

Product Specifications

Brand: Gorgias Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1463206445
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Middle East > Saudi Arabia
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 May 2020
Listed Since: 21 August 2019

Barcode

No barcode data available

Gorgias Press Islamic Origins, Arabian Custom, and the Documents of the Prophet: 17 (Islamic History and Thought)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge - The Biography of Muhammad: Nature and Authenticity

The Quranic Noah and the Making of the Islamic Prophet: A Study of Intertextuality and Religious Identity Formation in Late Antiquity: 4 (Judaism, ... – Tension, Transmission, Transformation, 4)

Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia (Variorum Collected Studies)

The Origins of Islamic Law: The Qur'an, the Muwatta' and Madinan Amal (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East)

Mohammed: Leben Und Legende

The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion (622–641): A Critical Revision of Muslims’ Traditional Portrayal of the Arab Raids and ... New Studies on the Middle East)

Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory

Islam in the Middle East: A Living Tradition

Routledge - The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam Book

Imagining Antiquity in Islamic Societies (Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East)

The Emergence of Arabic Poetry: From Regional Identities to Islamic Canonization

The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West: Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations

The Majestic Quran: A Plain English Translation Paperback: Guidance & Good News For The Mindful

Studies on the Life of Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam: Idol Worshippers, Christians and Jews in Pre- and Early Islam (Variorum Collected Studies)

The Majestic Quran: A Plain English Translation: Guidance & Good News For The Mindful

The Archaeology of Islam (Social Archaeology)

The Study of Islamic Origins: New Perspectives and Contexts: 15 (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation, 15)

Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law

Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam (Advances in the Study of Islam)

Routledge Handbook on Early Islam

Sharia in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1917

Routledge Handbook on Early Islam

The Islamic Interfaith Initiative: No Fear Shall Be upon Them

Brill - Books and Written Culture of the Islamic World - 113