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Author Crone, Patricia, 1945-2015.

Title Hagarism : the making of the Islamic world / Patricia Crone and Michael Cook
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1977
©1976

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 MELB  909.097671 CRO-H  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 268 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface; Part I. Whence Islam?: 1. Judeo-Hagarism; 2. Hagarism without Judaism; 3. The prophet like Moses; 4. The Samaritan calques; 5. Babylonia; Appendix 1: the Kenite, reason and custom; Part II. Whither Antiquity: 6. The imperial civilisations; 7. The Near-Eastern provinces; 8. The preconditions for the formation of Islamic civilisation; 9. The fate of antiquity I: the Hagarisation of the Fertile Crescent; 10. The fate of antiquity II: the cultural expropriation of the Fertile Crescent; 11. The fate of antiquity III: the intransigence of Islamic culture; 12. The fate of Hagrism; 13. Sadducee Islam; 14. The austerity of Islamic history; Appendix 2: Les Fufia Caninia and the Muslim law of bequests; Notes to the text; Bibliography; Indices
Analysis Islam History
Islam Origins Influence of Judaism
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 237-258
Includes index
Subject Islam -- History.
Islam -- history.
Author Cook, Michael, 1940-
LC no. 75041714
ISBN 0521211336