[PDF] The Religion And Rituals Of The Nomads Of Pre Islamic Arabia eBook

Author : Ahmad Al-Jallad
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9004504273

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This book approaches the religion and rituals of the pre-Islamic Arabian nomads using the Safaitic inscriptions. Unlike Islamic-period literary sources, this material was produced by practitioners of traditional Arabian religion; the inscriptions are eyewitnesses to the religious life of Arabian nomads prior to the spread of Judaism and Christianity across Arabia. The author attempts to reconstruct this world using the original words of its inhabitants, interpreted through comparative philology, pre-Islamic and Islamic-period literary sources, and the archaeological context.

Author : Ahmad Al-Jallad
Publisher : Ancient Languages and Civiliza
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004504264

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1. Introduction -- 2. Rites -- 3. Divinities and Their Roles in the Lives of Humans -- 4. Fate -- 5. Afterlife -- 6. Visual Representation of Deities and the Divine World -- 7. Amplification and Why Write -- 8. Worldview: A Reconstruction -- Appendix 1: Glossary of Divinities -- Appendix 2: Previously Unpublished Inscriptions -- Bibliography -- Index.

Author : F.E. Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1351894803

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This volume examines the background to the rise of Islam. The opening essays consider the broad context of nomad-sedentary relations in the Near East; thereafter the focus is on the Arabian peninsula and the history of the Arab peoples. The following papers set out the political and economic structures of the pre-Islamic period, and are concerned to trace the evolution of religious beliefs in the area, looking in particular at the role of local traditions and the impact of Jewish and Christian influences.

Author : Robert G. Hoyland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134646348

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Long before Muhammed preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both merchants and warriors Arabia and the Arabs provides the only up-to-date, one-volume survey of the region and its peoples, from prehistory to the coming of Islam Using a wide range of sources - inscriptions, poetry, histories, and archaeological evidence - Robert Hoyland explores the main cultural areas of Arabia, from ancient Sheba in the south, to the deserts and oases of the north. He then examines the major themes of *the economy *society *religion *art, architecture and artefacts *language and literature *Arabhood and Arabisation The volume is illustrated with more than 50 photographs, drawings and maps.

Author : Michael Muhammad Knight
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Combining insights from the best published historical and religious studies scholarship, original research, and rich first-person perspective, this highly readable book offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the founder and central figure of the Islamic tradition: the prophet Muhammad. Narrating Muhammad's life story, teachings, and daily practices, and assessing how his legacy is received, interpreted, and applied around the world, Michael Muhammad Knight reveals how the prophet has become simultaneously one of the most beloved historical figures in the world and also one of the most contested, challenged, and disparaged. Knight argues that there was never a singular Muslim vision of Muhammad but rather always multiple perspectives. While Muslims defend Muhammad's legacy against Islamophobic polemics, they also challenge each other regarding the proper authorities through which Muhammad's life and message become comprehensible and applicable in our world. Thinking across time and place, Knight argues that Muhammad is always contextual and contemporary.

Author : Greg Fisher
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0199654522

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Arabs and Empires before Islam collates nearly 250 translated extracts from an extensive array of ancient sources which, from a variety of different perspectives, illuminate the history of the Arabs before the emergence of Islam.

Author : Passerino Editore
Publisher : Passerino Editore
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8893454874

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To deeply understand the unique contents of Islam, it is important to know how was settled Arabia, peninsula of the southwest of Asia, before the arrival of Muhammad (Mohammed). Sure enough the pre-islamic era was totally different, under all aspects, from the so called arabic-islamic civilization following it. Translated by Roberta Ridolfi

Author : Mohammad Salama
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 0520391845

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"In God's Other Book: The Qur'an between History and Ideology, Mohammad Salama presents a powerful critique of the ways we study and analyze early Islam and its sacred text, filling a glaring hole in our understanding of this formative environment. Interrogating the ideological framework of late antiquity, Salama exposes hidden assumptions that prevent scholars from truly placing Islam in its socio-historical and cultural milieu. He also offers an alternative theoretical and practical model focused on pre-Islamic Arabic cultural production. Foregrounding the indigenous Arab community of seventh-century Hijaz, Salama demonstrates how the Qur'an played an organic role in commenting on, interacting with, and taking sides concerning matters of ethnicity, ethics, dress codes, and social habits. While the study delves into the past, it carries implications for the future: only with renewed attention to the Qur'an itself, in all of its splendor and intricacy, can Western readers engage thoughtfully and ethically not only with Islamic studies but also with the cultures and traditions of those who live according to another book"--

Author : Ahmad Al-Jallad
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004400427

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A dictionary of the Safaitic inscriptions, containing more than 1400 lemmata.

Author : Ellie Bennett
Publisher : PSU Department of English
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1646023099

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The title “Queen of the Arabs” is applied in Neo-Assyrian texts to five women from the Arabian Peninsula. These women led armies, offered tribute, and held religious roles in their communities from 738 to approximately 651 BCE. This book discusses what the title meant to the women who carried it and to the Assyrians who wrote about them. Whereas previous scholarship has considered the Queens of the Arabs in relation to the military and economic history of the Neo-Assyrian empire, Eleanor Bennett focuses on identity, using gender theory to locate points of the women’s alterity in Assyrian sources and to analyze how Assyrian cultural norms influenced the treatment of the “Queens of the Arabs.” This kind of analysis shows how Assyrian perceptions of the Queens of the Arabs, and of Arabian populations more generally, changed over time. As the Queens of the Arabs were located on the periphery of the Assyrian Empire, Bennett incorporates data from the Arabian Peninsula. The shift from an Assyrian lens to an Arabian one highlights inaccuracies in the Assyrian material, which brings into focus Assyrian misunderstandings of the region. The Arabian Peninsula also offers comparative models for the Queens of the Arabs based on Arabian cultures.