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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| Language: | English |
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Piscataway, NJ, USA :
Gorgias Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Gorgias Islamic studies ;
12. |
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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