{"product_id":"before-and-after-muhammad-9780691158532","title":"Before and After Muhammad","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIslam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. This title suggests a new way of thinking about the historical relationship between the scriptural monotheisms, integrating Islam into European and West Asian history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]he points he raises are important to understanding chronology and periodization on a global scale.\"--Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrefatory Note and Acknowledgments ix  Abbreviations xi  Chapter 1. INCLUDING ISLAM 1  The West and the Rest 1  Edward Gibbon 5  Islam and late Antiquity 9  Summary 15  Chapter 2. TIME: BEYOND LATE ANTIQUITY 18  The roots of late antique studies 18  Burckhardt to Strzygowski 23  The Orient and Islam: Views from Vienna 30  Pirenne to the present 37  Chapter 3. A NEW PERIODIZATION: THE FIRST MILLENNIUM 49  Decline versus transformation 49  Maturations 53  Monotheist historiography 68  For and against the First Millennium 82  Chapter 4. SPACE: AN EASTWARD SHIFT 92  Discovering the Mediterranean 92  Discovering the East 96  Empires and commonwealths 101  The Mountain Arena 116  Chapter 5. EXEGETICAL CULTURES 1: ARISTOTELIANISM 127  Greek Aristotelianism 129  Christian polemic 136  Aristotle in Latin, Armenian, and Syriac 139  Alexandria to Baghdad 146  Arabic Aristotelianism 153  Chapter 6. EXEGETICAL CULTURES 2: LAW AND RELIGION 164  Roman law 166  Rabbinic Judaism 173  Patristic Christianity 181  Islam 188  Chapter 7. VIEWPOINTS AROUND 1000: TUS, BASRA,  BAGHDAD, PISA 198  Tus\/Iran 199  Basra\/Encyclopedism 204  Baghdad\/Rationality 207  Pisa\/The Latin West 212  Prospects for Further Research 219  Map: the Eurasian Hinge, with Circum-Arabian Trade Routes 106  Index 225","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403799634263,"sku":"9780691158532","price":46.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691158532.jpg?v=1730484580","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/before-and-after-muhammad-9780691158532","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}