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, papyr...

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.