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The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 by Jonathan P. Berkey

Authors: Jonathan P. Berkey, Patricia Crone
ISBN-13: 9780521588133, ISBN-10: 0521588138
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Jonathan P. Berkey

Jonathan P. Berkey is Associate Professor of History at Davidson College. His publications include Popular Preaching and Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic Near East (2001).

Book Synopsis

Surveys the religious history of the peoples of the Near East from 600-1800.

	Preface
	Glossary
	Maps
Pt. I	The Near East before Islam	1
1	Introduction	3
2	The religions of late antiquity	10
3	Arabia before Islam	39
4	The early seventh century	50
Pt. II	The Emergence of Islam, 600-750	55
5	Approaches and problems	57
6	The origins of the Muslim community	61
7	Early Islam in the Near East	70
8	The Umayyad period	76
9	The beginnings of sectarianism	83
10	The non-Muslims of early Islam	91
11	The 'Abbasid revolution	102
Pt. III	The Consolidation of Islam, 750-1000	111
12	Issues of Islamic identity	113
13	Religion and politics	124
14	Shi'ism	130
15	The formation of Sunni traditionalism	141
16	Asceticism and mysticism	152
17	The non-Muslim communities	159
Pt. IV	Medieval Islam, 1000-1500	177
18	The medieval Islamic Near East	179
19	Characteristics of the medieval Islamic world	184
20	A Sunni "revival"?	189
21	Common patterns in social and political organization	203
22	Modes of justice	216
23	The transmission of religious knowledge	224
24	Sufism	231
25	Popular religion	248
	Epilogue	259
26	From medieval to modern Islam	261
	Suggested reading	270
	Index	276