Remapping Emergent Islam

Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories

Carlos A. Segovia Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi Daniel Beck José Costa Gilles Courtieu Emilio Gonzalez Ferrín Aaron Hughes Robert Martin Kerr Basil Lourié Tommaso Tesei

9789462988064

244 pages

Amsterdam University Press

Hardback $131.00

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Overview

This multidisciplinary collective volume advances the scholarly discussion on the origins of Islam. It simultaneously focuses on three domains: texts, social contexts, and ideological developments relevant for the study of Islam’s beginnings -- taking the latter expression in its broadest possible sense. The intersections of these domains need to be examined afresh in order to obtain a clear picture of the concurrent phenomena that collectively enabled both the gradual emergence of a new religious identity and the progressive delimitation of its initially fuzzy boundaries.

Author Bio

Carlos A. Segovia is Lecturer in Qur’anic and Religious Studies at Saint Louis University-Madrid and founding Co-Director of the Early Islamic Studies Seminar: International Scholarship on the Qur’an and Islamic Origins.