By Robert Hoyland

This e-book deals a brand new method of the vexing query of the way to write down the early historical past of Islam. the 1st half discusses the character of the Muslim and non-Muslim resource fabric for the 7th- and eighth-century heart East and argues that by way of lessening the divide among those traditions, which has principally been erected by way of smooth scholarship, we will come to a greater appreciation of this important interval. the second one half provides a close survey of assets and an research of a few one hundred twenty non-Muslim texts, all of which offer information regarding the 1st century and a half Islam (roughly A.D. 620-780). The 3rd half furnishes examples, based on the process urged within the first half and with the fabric awarded within the moment half, how one may perhaps write the heritage of this time. The fourth half takes the shape of excurses on a number of issues, equivalent to the method of Islamization, the phenomenon of conversion to Islam, the improvement of recommendations for selecting the course of prayer, and the conquest of Egypt.

Because this paintings perspectives Islamic background by using non-Muslim texts and assesses the latter within the mild of Muslim writings, will probably be crucial analyzing for historians of Islam, Christianity, Judaism, or Zoroastrianism--indeed, for all people with an curiosity in cultures of the jap Mediterranean in its conventional section from overdue Antiquity to medieval times.

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