Islam, the ancient near East and varieties of godlessness. / Collected studies in three. : Volume 3 / / by Patricia Crone ; edited by Hanna Siurua.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts, Volume 131
• VerfasserIn: Crone, Patricia,
• TeilnehmendeR: Siurua, Hanna,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 131.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Includes index.

Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 3, Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness , places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world. Volume 1, The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters , pursues the reconstruction of the religious environment in which Islam arose and develops an intertextual approach to studying the Qurʾānic religious milieu. Volume 2, The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands , examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam, above all that of the Iranians. The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- “Barefoot and Naked”: What Did the Bedouin of the Arab Conquests Look Like? -- The Ancient Near East and Islam: The Case of Lot-Casting -- Idrīs, Atraḫasīs and al-Khiḍr -- Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥaḍrī and the Punishment of Unbelievers -- The Dahrīs According to al-Jāḥiẓ -- Ungodly Cosmologies -- Post-Colonialism in Tenth-Century Islam -- What Are Prophets For? The Social Utility of Religion in Medieval Islamic Thought -- Oral Transmission of Subversive Ideas from the Islamic World to Europe: The Case of the Three Impostors -- How the Field Has Changed in My Lifetime -- List of Patricia Crone’s Publications -- Index of Names and Terms.