Contents

pp 5-6

Introduction

pp 7-12

Part 1 - Re-Assessing the Hypothesis of a Peripheral Jewish Background

pp 13-14

1 - South Arabian ‘Judaism’, Ḥimyarite Raḥmanism, and the Origins of Islam

pp 15-44

2 - Early Islam as a Messianic Movement: A Non-Issue?

pp 45-82

Part 2 - An Encrypted Manichaean / Messalian Matrix?

pp 83-84

3 - The Astral Messenger, The Lunar Revelation, The Solar Salvation: Dualist Cosmic Soteriology in The Early Qur’ān

pp 85-110

4 - Messalianism, Binitarianism, and the East-Syrian Background of the Qur’ān

pp 111-128

Part 3 - Measuring the World’s Timeline… and Imagining the Afterlife at the Persian Court?

pp 129-130

5 - The Jewish and Christian Background of the Earliest Islamic Liturgical Calendar

pp 131-148

6 - The Persian Keys of the Quranic Paradise

pp 149-174

Part 4 - Conceptual Quicksand, Meta-Narratives of Identity, Texts and their Marginalia

pp 175-176

7 - Divine Attributes of ‘Alī in Shi’ite Mysticism: New Remarks on ‘Heresy’ in Early Islam

pp 177-202

8 - Echoes of Pseudepigrapha in the Qur’ān

pp 203-220

9 - What Do We Mean by THE Qur’ān: On Origins, Fragments, and Inter-Narrative Identity

pp 221-244