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Subject(s)

• Islamic civilization [Browse]
• Islamic Empire—Intellectual life [Browse]

Biographical/​Historical note

Michael Cook is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, USA.

Summary note

In contrast to the gradual formation of the high cultures of most of the world, the process by which Islamic civilisation emerged and took on its classical form between the 7th and 9th centuries was unusually sudden. The studies collected here are concerned with aspects of this remarkable development. Their topics are varied, including the emergence of dialectical theology, the origins of accounts of Pharaonic history current in medieval Egypt, the sources of Muslim dietary law, the Islamic background of Karaism, and Max Weber's views on Islamic sects. Other articles look at early Syrian eschatology and its connections with late antiquity and Byzantium, at the relevance of eschatology to debates about the dating of traditions, and at the attitudes of the early traditionists to the writing down of tradition. The final items examine reports about the textual affiliations of a long-lost Koranic codex and discussions of adultery among the baboons of Yemen. A recurring theme is the relationship between Early Muslim ideas and those of non-Muslim cultures, sometimes very ancient ones.

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Contents

• The origins of Kalam (Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 43. London, 1980)
• Pharaonic history in medieval Egypt (Studia Islamica, fasc. 57. Paris, 1983)
• Magian cheese: an archaic problem in Islamic law (Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 47. London, 1984)
• Early Islamic dietary law (Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 7. Jerusalem, 1986)
• 'Anan and Islam: the origins of Karaite scripturalism (Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 9. Jerusalem, 1987)
• Weber and Islamic sects (Max Weber & Islam, ed. Toby E. Huff and Wolfgang Schluchter. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 1999)
• The Heraclian dynasty in Muslim eschatology (Al-Qantara, vol. 13. Madrid, 1992)
• Eschatology and the dating of traditions (Princeton Papers in Near Eastern Studies, No. 1. Princeton, 1992)
• An early Islamic apocalyptic chronicle (Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 52. Chicago, 1993)
• The opponents of the writing of tradition in early Islam (Arabica, vol. 44. Leiden, 1997)
• Ibn Qutayba and the monkeys (Studia Islamica, fasc. 89. Paris, 1999)
• A Koranic codex inherited by Malik from his grandfather (Graeco-Arabica, vols. 7-8. Athens, 2000).

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ISBN

• 9781003278887 ((electronic bk.))
• 1003278884 ((electronic bk.))
• 9781000585087 ((electronic bk. ; : PDF))
• 1000585085 ((electronic bk. ; : PDF))
• 9781000585223 ((electronic bk. ; : EPUB))
• 1000585220 ((electronic bk. ; : EPUB))

OCLC

1312327235

Doi

• 10.4324/9781003278887

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