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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784501303321

Autore

Bamyeh Mohammed A

Titolo

The social origins of Islam : mind, economy, discourse / / Mohammed A. Bamyeh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

0-8166-8984-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xiii, 316 pages)

Disciplina

297

Soggetti

Islam - Origin

Arabian Peninsula Civilization

Arabian Peninsula Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Part I: The Ground; ONE. The Ideology of the Horizons; TWO. Socioeconomy and the Horizon of Thought; THREE. Social Time, Death, and the Ideal; FOUR. Pre-Islamic Ontotheology and the Method of Knowledge; FIVE. The Discourse and the Path; Part II: The Faith; SIX. Prophetic Constitution; SEVEN. The House of the Umma and the Spider Web of the Tribe; EIGHT. Austerity, Power, and Worldly Exchange; NINE. In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Origins, the System, and the Accident; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.