Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World
Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World
Michael Cook
Out of Print
This is a controversial study of the origins of Islamic civilisation, first published in 1977. By examining non-Muslim sources, the authors point out the intimate link between the Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam. As a serious, scholarly attempt to open up a new, exploratory path of Islamic history, the book has already engendered much debate. This paperback edition will make the authors' conclusions widely accessible to teachers and students of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
Reviews & endorsements
'The authors' erudition is quite extraordinary, their industry everywhere evident, their prose ebullient.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
'Here, then, is a work of brilliance and deep intellectual penetration … without doubt it constitutes a landmark in the history of scholarship.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
Product details
May 1977Hardback
9780521211338
268 pages
0.43kg
Unavailable - out of print May 1989
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. Whence Islam?:
- 1. Judeo-Hagarism
- 2. Hagarism without Judaism
- 3. The prophet like Moses
- 4. The Samaritan calques
- 5. Babylonia
- Appendix 1: the Kenite, reason and custom
- Part II. Whither Antiquity:
- 6. The imperial civilisations
- 7. The Near-Eastern provinces
- 8. The preconditions for the formation of Islamic civilisation
- 9. The fate of antiquity I: the Hagarisation of the Fertile Crescent
- 10. The fate of antiquity II: the cultural expropriation of the Fertile Crescent
- 11. The fate of antiquity III: the intransigence of Islamic culture
- 12. The fate of Hagrism
- 13. Sadducee Islam
- 14. The austerity of Islamic history
- Appendix 2: Les Fufia Caninia and the Muslim law of bequests
- Notes to the text
- Bibliography
- Indices.
