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
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.