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The Sectarian Milieu: Content And Composition of Islamic Salvation History
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by John Wansbrough and Gerald Hawting
Sales Rank: 217210
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 200 pages
Published by: Prometheus Books May 30, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1591023785
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1591023784
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.2 x 1 inches
Weighs: 15.2 ounces
Book Description
One of the most innovative thinkers in the field of Islamic Studies was John Wansbrough (1928-2002), Professor of Semitic Studies and Pro-Director of London Universitys School of Oriental and African Studies. Critiquing the traditional accounts of the origins of Islam as historically unreliable and heavily influenced by religious dogma, Wansbrough suggested radically new interpretations very different from the views of both the Muslim orthodoxy and most Western scholars.
In The Sectarian Milieu Wansbrough "analyses early Islamic historiography –or rather the interpretive myths underlying this historiography-as a late manifestation of Old Testament ‘salvation history." Continuing themes that he treated in a previous work, Quranic Studies, Wansbrough argues that the traditional biographies of Muhammad (Arabic sira and maghazi) are best understood, not as historical documents that attest to "what really happened," but as literary texts written more than one hundred years after the facts and heavily influenced by Jewish, and to a lesser extent Christian, interconfessional polemics. Thus, Islamic "history" is almost completely a later literary reconstruction, which evolved out of an environment of competing Judeo-Christian sects. As such, Wansbrough felt that the most fruitful means of analyzing such texts was literary analysis. Furthermore, he maintained that it was next to impossible to extract the kernel of historical truth from works that were created principally to serve later religious agendas. Although his work remains controversial to this day, his fresh insights and approaches to the study of Islam continue to inspire scholars. This new edition contains a valuable assessment of Wansbroughs contributions and many useful textual notes and translations by Gerald Hawting (University of London), plus the authors 1986 Albert Einstein Memorial Lecture, "Res Ipsa Loquitur."
About The Author
John Wansbrough (1928-2002) was Professor of Semitic Studies and Pro-Director of London Universitys School of Oriental and African Studies. Besides The Sectarian Milieu (1978), he also published Quranic Studies (1977), Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean (1996), and many scholarly articles
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