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Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam book cover

1st Edition

Geneses A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam

Edited By John Tolan Copyright 2019
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge
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What is a religion? How do we discern the boundaries between religions, or religious communities? When does Judaism become Judaism, Christianity become Christianity, Islam become Islam? Scholars have increasingly called into question the standard narratives created by the various orthodoxies, narratives of steadfastness and consistency, of long and courageous maintenance of true doctrine and... Read more

Introduction (John Tolan)

I. Narratives of Triumph and defeat

  1. The Contours of Abrahamic Identity: A Zoroastrian Perspective (Yishai Kiel)

  2. The Twilight of the Ancient Gods (Danuta Shanzer)

  3. Simon the God: Imagining the Other in Second-Century Christianity (Duncan MacRae)

  4. Contested Ground in Gaza: Hagiography and the Narrative of Triumphalist Christianity (Claudia Rapp)

  5. Between Jerome and Augustine of Hippo: Some Intellectual Preoccupations of Late Antiquity (Mohamed-Arbi Nsiri)

    6. II. Forging legal paradigms

  6. What is ‘Islamic’ about Geonic Depictions of the Oral Torah? (Marc Herman)

  7. Reevaluating the Role of the Epigones (tabi¿un) in the Formation of Islamic Ritual and Jurisprudence (Mohammed Hocine Benkheira)

  8. Recording Debts in Sufyanid Fus¿a¿: A Re-examination of the Procedures and Calendar in Use in the 1st/7th century (Naïm Vanthieghem and Mathieu Tillier)

  9. Marriage and Sexual Ethics: Divergence and Change in Classical Islamic Legal Texts (Karen Moukheiber)

    10. III. Contemporary Echoes

  10. Teaching Early Islam: The Gap Between School and the Internet in British Schooling (Philip Wood)

  11. The Shahada and the Creation of an Islamic Identity (Suleiman A. Mourad)

Index

Biography

John Tolan has studied at Yale University, USA (BA Classics), University of Chicago, USA (MA and PhD History) and the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (HDR); he is Professor of History at the University of Nantes, France and member of the Academia Europaea. He has been awarded numerous prizes and distinctions, including two major grants from the European Research Council and the Prix Diane Potier-Boès from the Académie Française (2008). He is author of numerous articles and books, including Petrus Alfonsi and His Medieval Readers (1993), Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination (2002), Sons of Ishmael (2008), Saint Francis and the Sultan (2009) and Muhammad the European (2019).

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