The Arabs and Islam in late antiquity

This work provides a critique of Arabic textual sources for the history of the Arabs in late antique times, during the centuries immediately preceding Muhammad and up to and including the Umayyad period. Aziz Al-Azmeh considers the value and relevance of a range of literary sources, including orality and literacy, ancient Arabic poetry, the corpus of Arab heroic lore (ayyam), the early narrative, and the Qur'an, for the reconstruction of the social, political, cultural and religious history of the Arabs.

Year

2014

Language

English

Series

Theories and paradigms of Islamic studies

Publisher

Gerlach Press

Editions

1

Pages

155

ISBN

9783940924421

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