Theology and society in the second and third centuries of the Hijra. : a history of religious thought in early Islam / / Volume 1 : / by Josef van Ess ; translated from German by John O'Kane.

Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally publis...

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Superior document:Handbook of Oriental studies. Section One, Near and Middle East = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section One, Near and Middle East, Volume 116/1
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
German
Series:Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Volume 116/1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (567 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Setting the Seal on Prophecy
  • The Awareness of Being Chosen and Identity Formation
  • Community and Individual
  • Specific Religious Developments around the Turn of the 2nd Century
  • The Spread of the Faith
  • Introductory Remark on Methodology
  • Syria
  • Iraq
  • Supplementary Remarks.