Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins (Islamic History and Civilization)

Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins (Islamic History and Civilization)

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Book Description
This volume deals with the methodological and theoretical issues of the study of Islamic origins. Each of the twelve articles examines a different aspect of Islamic origins: early Islamic history including the life of the Prophet, the Sunna and ḥadīth, tafsīr and the Qur'ān, and the rise of Islamic law. Both sceptical (or revisionist) scholars and sanguine (or traditionalist) scholars examine and employ the various contemporary theories on the development of Islam in the first 3 centuries A.H. In so doing, they seek to exemplify the sources and methodologies used to support these theories and to discuss their relative merits.

About the Author
Herbert Berg, Ph.D. (1996) in the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His research interests are Islamic origins and tafsīr and he has published The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam (Curzon, 2000).

Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins (Islamic History and Civilization),Herbert Berg,Brill Academic Publishers,9004126023,Anthropology - Cultural,Interior Design - General,Islam,Islam - General,Islamic Studies,Origin,Religion,Religion - World Religions,Social Science,Study and teaching

Book Contents:

1. Microprocessors and Microcomputers: Hardware and Software (5th Edition)
2. Mission to Educate: A History of the Educational Work of the Scottish Presbyterian Mission in East Nigeria, 1846-1960 (Studies on Religion in Africa, 17,)
3. Muslim Women in the United Kingdom and Beyond: Experiences and Images (Women and Gender, the Middle East and the Islamic World, V. 2)
4. Narrative Syntax and the Hebrew Bible: Papers of the Tilburg Conference 1996
5. Natural Christmas : a Madderlake book
6. On Becoming a Democracy: Transition and Transformation in South African Society (Imagined South Africa) (Imagined South Africa)
7. On Chinese Body Thinking: A Cultural Hermeneutic (Philosophy of History and Culture)
8. Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Southern Africa (Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies)
9. Origins and Evolution of the Moses Nativity Story (Numen Book Series)
10. Origins: The Ancient Near Eastern Background of Some Modern Western Institutions (Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East, V. 6)

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