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BEFORE AND AFTER MUHAMMAD THE FIRST MILLENNIUM REFOCUSED Garth Fowden Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford ...

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Contents Prefatory note and acknowledgments ix Chapter 1. INCLUDING ISLAM Abbreviations xi The West and the Rest Edward Gibbon ...

viii | CONTENTS Chapter 7. VIEWPOINTS AROUND 1000: ṬŪS, BASRA, BAGHDAD, PISA 198 Tūs/Iran 199 Basra/Encyclopedism 204 Baghdad/Ra ...

Prefatory Note and Acknowledgments Before and after Muhammad develops my attempt in Empire to common- wealth (1993) to view Arsa ...

x | PREFATORy NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Otherwise, Before and after Muhammad was conceived and written in the uniquely favorable ...

Abbreviations ASAP Arabic sciences and philosophy (Cambridge) CAH The Cambridge ancient history vol. 12^2 , ed. A. K. Bowman and ...

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1 INCLUDING ISLAM Although the divide between Islam and Europe will always be deeper than that between the different European pe ...

2 | CHAPTER 1 way to becoming one more historical period, and that future historians will be as much concerned to explain its lo ...

INCLUDING ISLAM | 3 In the first place we need to reformulate the history of the First Millen- nium in order to fit Islam into i ...

4 | CHAPTER 1 It may be objected that philosophy was and remains a minority pursuit. But more general study of early Islam can i ...

INCLUDING ISLAM | 5 will any sociologist of religion aware of the fluidity of ordinary Christian and Muslim identities, and the ...