Seeing Islam as others saw it : a survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian writings on early Islam /

This seminal work continues to shape the thought of specialists studying the Late Antique crossroads at which Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, and Islamic histories met, by offering the field a new approach to the vexing question of how to write the early history of Islam. The new edition of the stud...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoyland, Robert G., 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Piscataway, NJ, USA : Gorgias Press, 2019.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Gorgias Islamic studies ; 12.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The historical background
  • The nature of the sources
  • Greek sources
  • West Syrian, Coptic and Armenian sources
  • East Syrian sources
  • Latin sources
  • Jewish, Persian and Chinese sources
  • Apocalypses and visions
  • Martyrologies
  • Chronicles and histories
  • Apologies and disputations
  • Non-Muslim conceptions of Islam
  • Using Non-Muslim sources : an empirical approach
  • Using Non-Muslim sources : an argumentative approach
  • Excurses. The Canons and Resolutions of Jacob of Edessa ; The Byzantine-Arab Chronicle of 741 and Its Eastern Source ; An Outline of the Syriac Common Source ; The Passion of David of Dwin ; Georgian Historical Writing Dated Arabic Writings, AH 1-135/622-752