Society and religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam

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Society and religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam

M.J. Kister

(Collected studies series, CS327)

Variorum, c1990

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"This volume contains viii + 342 pages."--P. vi

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

In this second collection of his articles, Professor Kister has continued his investigation into the social and religious history of Arabia. The papers are based essentially on a study of the traditions preserved in the early Arabic sources, many unpublished. As the author demonstrates, these sources represent an invaluable mine of information on the history and religious life of pre-Islamic Arabia and on the transformations that affected customs, law and beliefs after the coming of Islam. Particular articles also deal with such questions as the relations and confrontation between nascent Islam and Judaism and Christianity, the contacts between tribal society and sedentary population, and the emergence of new popular customs and beliefs. Dans ce second receuil d'articles, le professeur Kister, poursuit ses recherches sur l'histoire sociale et religieuse de l'Arabie. Les essais sont essentiellement bases sur une etude des traditions conservees par les premieres sources arabes, dont beaucoup n'ont jamais ete publiees. Ainsi que l'auteur le demontre, ces sources representent une mine d'information inestimable sur la vie religieuse et l'histoire de l'Arabie pre-islamique et sur les changements qui affecterent coutumes,lois et croyances apres l'avenement de l'Islam. Certains articles , traitent plus particulierement, de sujets, tels les rapports et les affrontements entre la force naissante de l'Islam et le JudaA-sme et Christianisme pre-existants; ou encore des contacts entre societe tribale et population sedentaire, ainsi que de l'emergence de nouvelles coutumes et croyances poulaires.

Table of Contents

  • Contents: Labbayka, allahumma, labbayka...: on a monotheistic aspect of a Jahiliyya practice (with additional notes)
  • Mecca and the tribes of Arabia
  • Notes on Caskel's Jamharat an nasab
  • A work of Ibnal-Kalbi on the Arab peninsula
  • 'On the wife of the goldsmith of Fadak and her progeny': a study in Jahili genealogical traditions
  • On an early fragment of the Qur'an
  • 'O God tighten thy grip on Mudar..': some socio - economic and religious aspects of an early hadith
  • The massacre of the Band Qurayza: a re-examination of a tradition
  • ...illa bi-haqqihi...: a study of an early hadith
  • 'Pare your nails': a study of an early tradition
  • Sha' ban is my month': a study of an early tradition
  • 'Call yourselves by graceful names' (with additional notes)
  • On 'concessions' and conduct: a study in early hadith
  • The interpretation of dreams: an unknown manuscript of Ibn Qutayba's 'Ibarat al-ru'ya
  • An yadin (Qur'an IX, 29): an attempt at interpretation
  • Index.

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  • NCID
    BA12001321
  • ISBN
    • 0860782778
  • LCCN
    90040903
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Aldershot, Hampshire
  • Pages/Volumes
    1 v. (various pagings)
  • Size
    24 cm
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