A prophet has appeared: the rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish eyes : a sourcebook
Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged the traditional accounts of Islamic origins by drawing attention to the wealth of non-Islamic sources that describe the rise of Islam. A Prophet Has Appeared brings this approach to the classroom. This...
| Résumé: | Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged the traditional accounts of Islamic origins by drawing attention to the wealth of non-Islamic sources that describe the rise of Islam. A Prophet Has Appeared brings this approach to the classroom. This collection provides students and scholars with carefully selected, introduced, and annotated materials from non-Islamic sources dating to the early years of Islam. These can be read alone or alongside the Qur'an and later Islamic materials. Applying historical-critical analysis, the volume moves these invaluable sources to more equal footing with later Islamic narratives about Muhammad and the formation of his new religious movement. Included are new English translations of sources by twenty authors, originally written in not only Greek and Latin but also Syriac, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, and Arabic and spanning a geographic range from England to Egypt and Iran. Ideal for the classroom and personal library, this sourcebook provides readers with the tools to meaningfully approach a new, burgeoning area of Islamic studies. Intro -- Imprint -- Subvention -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Teaching of Jacob the Newly Baptized -- 2 Synodical Letter, Homily on the Nativity, and Homily on Epiphany -- 3 A Syriac Fragment Concerning the Believers' Invasion of Syria -- 4 Letter 14 -- 5 Chronicle -- 6 The Armenian Chronicle of 661 attributed to Sebeos -- 7 The Spiritual Meadow, Appendix to the Georgian Version -- 8 Homily on the End-Times -- 9 Letter 14C -- 10 Edifying Tales, Homily on the Lord's Passion, The Hodegos, and Questions and Answers -- 11 The Khuzistan Chronicle -- 12 The Apocalypse of Rabbi Shimʿōn b. Yoḥai, The Secrets of Rabbi Shimʿōn b. Yoḥai -- 13 Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer -- 14 The Maronite Chronicle -- 15 On the Holy Places -- 16 The Apocalypse of Ps.-Shenoute -- 17 The Book of Main Points -- 18 Fourth Letter to John the Stylite -- 19 The Passion of Peter of Capitolias -- 20 Excerpts from a Lost Seventh-Century Greek Source, The Chronicle of Theophanes, The Chronicle of Agapius, The Chronicle of Michael the Syrian, and The Chronicle of 1234 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 0520971272 |