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Author |
: G. W. Bowersock |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 120 |
Release |
: 2017-04-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674978218 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674978218 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Crucible of Islam by : G. W. Bowersock
Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century, yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account for nearly a quarter of the global population. A renowned classicist, G. W. Bowersock seeks to illuminate this obscure and dynamic period in the history of Islam—exploring why arid Arabia proved to be such fertile ground for Muhammad’s prophetic message, and why that message spread so quickly to the wider world. The Crucible of Islam offers a compelling explanation of how one of the world’s great religions took shape. “A remarkable work of scholarship.” —Wall Street Journal “A little book of explosive originality and penetrating judgment... The joy of reading this account of the background and emergence of early Islam is the knowledge that Bowersock has built it from solid stones... A masterpiece of the historian’s craft.” —Peter Brown, New York Review of Books
Author |
: David Levering Lewis |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 505 |
Release |
: 2009-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393067903 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393067904 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by : David Levering Lewis
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author, God’s Crucible brings to life “a furiously complex age” (New York Times Book Review). Resonating as profoundly today as when it was first published to widespread critical acclaim a decade ago, God’s Crucible is a bold portrait of Islamic Spain and the birth of modern Europe from one of our greatest historians. David Levering Lewis’s narrative, filled with accounts of some of the most epic battles in world history, reveals how cosmopolitan, Muslim al-Andalus flourished—a beacon of cooperation and tolerance—while proto-Europe floundered in opposition to Islam, making virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, religious intolerance, perpetual war, and slavery. This masterful history begins with the fall of the Persian and Roman empires, followed by the rise of the prophet Muhammad and five centuries of engagement between the Muslim imperium and an emerging Europe. Essential and urgent, God’s Crucible underscores the importance of these early, world-altering events whose influence remains as current as today’s headlines.
Author |
: Glen Warren Bowersock |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674978234 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674978232 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Crucible of Islam by : Glen Warren Bowersock
Little is known about sixth-century Arabia. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from Iberia to India. G. W. Bowersock illuminates this obscure yet most dynamic period in Islam, exploring why arid Arabia proved to be fertile ground for Muhammad's message and why it spread so quickly to the wider world. Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century CE. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account for nearly a quarter of the global population. G. W. Bowersock seeks to illuminate this most obscure and yet most dynamic period in the history of Islamfrom the mid-sixth to mid-seventh centuryexploring why arid Arabia proved to be such fertile ground for Muhammads prophetic message, and why that message spread so quickly to the wider world. In Muhammads time Arabia stood at the crossroads of great empires, a place where Christianity, Judaism, and local polytheistic traditions vied for adherents. Mecca, Muhammads birthplace, belonged to the part of Arabia recently conquered by the Ethiopian Christian king Abraha. But Ethiopia lost western Arabia to Persia following Abrahas death, while the death of the Byzantine emperor in 602 further destabilized the region. Within this chaotic environment, where lands and populations were traded frequently among competing powers and belief systems, Muhammad began winning converts to his revelations. In a troubled age, his followers coalesced into a powerful force, conquering Palestine, Syria, and Egypt and laying the groundwork of the Umayyad Caliphate. The crucible of Islam remains an elusive vessel. Although we may never grasp it firmly, Bowersock offers the most detailed description of its contours and the most compelling explanation of how one of the worlds great religions took shape.
Author |
: Philip Jenkins |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 341 |
Release |
: 2017-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465096411 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465096417 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crucible of Faith by : Philip Jenkins
One of America's foremost scholars of religion examines the tumultuous era that gave birth to the modern Judeo-Christian tradition In The Crucible of Faith, Philip Jenkins argues that much of the Judeo-Christian tradition we know today was born between 250-50 BCE, during a turbulent "Crucible Era." It was during these years that Judaism grappled with Hellenizing forces and produced new religious ideas that reflected and responded to their changing world. By the time of the fall of the Temple in 70 CE, concepts that might once have seemed bizarre became normalized-and thus passed on to Christianity and later Islam. Drawing widely on contemporary sources from outside the canonical Old and New Testaments, Jenkins reveals an era of political violence and social upheaval that ultimately gave birth to entirely new ideas about religion, the afterlife, Creation and the Fall, and the nature of God and Satan.
Author |
: Zachary Abuza |
Publisher |
: Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1588262375 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781588262370 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Militant Islam in Southeast Asia by : Zachary Abuza
Zachary Abuza has traveled to most of the hot spots of Islamic militancy in Southeast Asia. Drawing on this intensive on-the-ground investigation, he explains the growing--and increasingly violent--Islamic political consciousness in Southeast Asia.
Author |
: Glen Warren Bowersock |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674488822 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674488823 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Julian the Apostate by : Glen Warren Bowersock
Proceeding directly from an evaluation of the ancient sources--the testimony of friends and enemies of Julian as well as the writings of the emperor himself--the author traces Julian's youth, his command of the Roman forces in Gaul, and his emergence as sole ruler in the course of a dramatic march to Constantinople.
Author |
: Efraim Karsh |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2007-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300122633 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300122632 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Islamic Imperialism by : Efraim Karsh
From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, Karsh contends that the region's experience is the culmination of long-existing indigenous trends, passions, and patterns of behavior, and that foremost among these is Islam's millenarian imperial tradition. The author explores the history of Islam's imperialism and the persistence of the Ottoman imperialist dream that outlasted World War I to haunt Islamic and Middle Eastern politics to the present day. September 11 can be seen as simply the latest expression of this dream, and such attacks have little to do with U.S. international behavior or policy in the Middle East, says Karsh. The House of Islam's war for world mastery is traditional, indeed venerable, and it is a quest that is far from over.
Author |
: Dennis B. McGilvray |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 452 |
Release |
: 2008-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822341611 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822341611 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crucible of Conflict by : Dennis B. McGilvray
DIVExamines the caste, marriage patterns, ethnicity and religious institutions in the Tamil-speaking Hindu and Muslim communities situated along the eastern coastline of Sri Lanka, exploring the sources of their ethnic and political hostilities in the modern/div
Author |
: Graeme Wood (Journalist) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812988758 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812988752 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Way of the Strangers by : Graeme Wood (Journalist)
"The Way of the Strangers is an intimate journey into the minds of the Islamic State's true believers. From the streets of Cairo to the mosques of London, Wood interviews supporters, recruiters, and sympathizers of the group...Wood speaks with non-Islamic State Muslim scholars and jihadists, and explores the group's idiosyncratic, coherent approach to Islam...Through character study and analysis, Wood provides a clear-eyed look at a movement that has inspired so many people to abandon or uproot their families.
Author |
: David Fromkin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0792265971 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780792265979 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cradle and Crucible by : David Fromkin
Through photographs, maps, and the writings of highly respected authors such as David Fromkin, Zahi Hawass, Sandra Mackey, and Milton Viorst, Cradle & Crucible details the historical, political, cultural, and religious forces that have shaped the region and unravels for readers the enigma that is the Middle East. Beginning with the prehistoric civilizations of the fertile crescent and continuing through the conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries, the first section of the book distills the Middle East's sweeping, often turbulent history. From the Hittites to Alexander the Great, from the Romans to the Crusaders, from the Ottomans to the Imperialists, the Middle East's rich tapestry of influences and identities is described with new critical insights. The book's second section is devoted to the Middle East's three great faiths, examining in depth the impact of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian beliefs on history and daily life in the Middle East. Filled with photographs and maps that contribute to a visual understanding of the subject, Cradle & Crucible is a timely guide to this complex, enormously important area of the world.