Late antique responses to the Arab conquests / / edited by Josephine van den Bent, Floris van den Eijnde, and Johan Weststeijn.

• Superior document: Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean ; Volume 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Bent, Josephine van den, 1988-; Eijnde, Floris van den, 1975-; Weststeijn, Johan (Researcher),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean ; Volume 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 pages)

Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests is a showcase of new discoveries in an exciting and rapidly developing field: the study of the transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam. The contributors to this volume engage with previously neglected sources, such as Arabic rock inscriptions, papyri and Byzantine archaeological remains. They also apply new interpretative methods to the literary tradition, reading the Qur'an as a late antique text, using Arabic poetry as a source to study the gestation of an Arab identity, and extracting settlement patterns of the Arabian colonizers in order to explain regional processes of Arabicization and Islamization. This volume shows how the Arab conquests changed both the Arabian conquerors and the conquered.

Table of Contents

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests: An Introduction -- 1 Islam and the End of Antiquity: Revisiting the Pirenne Thesis in the Age of Connectivity -- 2 The Impact of Empire: Tradition and Change -- 3 A "Late Antique Turn" -- 4 A Survey of the Contributions to This Volume -- 4.1 The Qurʾān as a Late Antique Text -- 4.2 Late Antiquity to Early Islam: A Gradual Transformation -- 4.3 Adapting to the Arab Conquests -- 5 A Small Arab World: The Late Antique Arab Conquests from a Network Perspective -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 The Qurʾānic Rūm: A Late Antique Perspective -- 1 Reading the Qurʾān: Some Introductory Remarks -- 2 Traditional Tafsīr of Q 30:2-5 -- 3 The Qurʾānic al-Rūm: Some Late Antique Perspectives -- 4 Jerusalem-Near and Far? -- 5 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Wine and Impurity in the Sura of the Bees: A Structuralist Interpretation of Qurʾān 16:67 -- 1 The Debilitating and Polluting Aspects of Sakar -- 2 The Drinks of Life -- 3 The Opposition between Pure and Impure in Wine Verse 16:67 -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Historical-Critical Research of the Sīra of the Prophet Muhammad: What Do We Stand to Gain? -- 1 The State of Affairs -- 2 A Story of the Sīra -- 3 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Arabicization, Islamization, and the Colonies of the Conquerors -- 1 Arabicization -- 2 Islamization -- 3 Patterns of Arabicization and Islamization -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Continuity and Change: Elite Responses to the Founding of the Caliphate -- 1 Conquests and Conquerors? -- 2 Continuity of Emigrant Communities? -- 3 Sources -- 4 Changes to Elite Communities: Poetic Indications -- 4.1 Terms of Communal Identity.

4.2 Spatial Considerations -- 4.3 The Hajj -- 4.4 Islam and Poetry -- 5 An Arabness Case Study: al-Azd in Umayyad Politics -- 6 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Muhammad's World in Egypt -- 1 Sources and Methods in the Study of Early Islam -- 2 A New Regime -- 3 Consumption Patterns and Material Culture -- 4 Muslim Rule? -- 5 Patterns of Innovation and Influence -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 "May God be Mindful of Yazīd the King": Further Reflections on the Yazīd Inscription and the Development of Arabic Scripts -- 1 Two Other Early Christian Inscriptions and the Shape of the r -- 2 Is Yazīd the King Really Yazīd i? -- 3 The Writing School of Medina -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 Of Siblings, Kingdoms, and the Days of the Messiah: Jewish Literary Responses to the New Order in the Land of Israel in the First Muslim Period -- 1 The Dissimilar Siblings and Their Dissimilar Offspring -- 2 Reordering the Kingdoms -- 3 The Kingdom of Ishmael and Its Role in the Jewish Eschaton -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 New Light on the Dark Ages: A Byzantine Perspective on the Arab Expansion -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Empires in Flux -- 3 First Case Study: Athens -- 4 Second Case Study: Butrint -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Biblical and Qurʾānic References.