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The formation of Islam: religion and society in the Near East, 600-1800

Jonathan Porter Berkey
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Glossary (page xi)
  • Maps (page xvi)
  • Part I The Near East before Islam (page 1)
    • 1 Introduction (page 3)
    • 2 The religions of late antiquity (page 10)
    • 3 Arabia before Islam (page 39)
    • 4 The early seventh century (page 50)
  • Part II The Emergence of Islam 600 -750 (page 55)
    • 5 Approaches and problems (page 57)
    • 6 The origins of the Muslim community (page 61)
    • 7 Early Islam in the Near East (page 70)
    • 8 The Umayyad period (page 76)
    • 9 The beginnings of sectarianism (page 83)
    • 10 The non - Muslims of early Islam (page 91)
    • 11 The ʿAbbasid revolution (page 102)
  • Part III The Consolidation of Islam, 750 -1000 (page 111)
    • 12 Issues of Islamic identity (page 113)
    • 13 Religion and politics (page 124)
    • 14 Shiʿism (page 130)
    • 15 The formation of Sunni traditionalism (page 141)
    • 16 Asceticism and mysticism (page 152)
    • 17 The non-Muslim communities (page 159)
  • Part IV Medieval Islam, 1000-1500 (page 177)
    • 18 The medieval Islamic Near East (page 179)
    • 19 Characteristics of the medieval Islamic world (page 184)
    • 20 A Sunni "revival"? (page 189)
    • 21 Common patterns in social and political organization (page 203)
    • 22 Modes of justice (page 216)
    • 23 The transmission of religious knowledge (page 224)
    • 24 Sufism (page 231)
    • 25 Popular religion (page 248)
  • Epilogue (page 259)
    • 26 From medieval to modern Islam (page 261)
  • Suggested reading (page 270)
  • Index (page 276)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
DWI 44.1 (2204): 129-130 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1571338
JESHO 47.2 (2004): 264-267 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25165037
JAOS 124.2 (Apr. - Jun. 2004): 401-402 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4132255
AHR 109.3 (Jun. 2004): 1013-1014 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/530731
SI 96 (2003): 117-124 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1596249
Citable Link
Published: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521582148 (hardcover)
  • 9780521588133 (paper)
  • 9780511090776 (ebook)
Series
  • ATLA Special Series
Subject
  • Islamic Studies
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