Before and After Muhammad The First Millennium Refocused

6 | CHAPTER 1 than the title- page believe that The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire concerns only the Roman ...

INCLUDING ISLAM | 7 of Asia.”^17 Nevertheless, the space and extended narrative Gibbon devotes to the Islamic world, in a book w ...

8 | CHAPTER 1 boyish taste for the pursuit of exotic history” in such as Simon Ockley and the Universal history (1736–68), among ...

INCLUDING ISLAM | 9 By singling out certain durable, “longue durée” currents in human experi- ence—notably Greco- Roman rational ...

10 | CHAPTER 1 history, perhaps even a completely fresh start? Or is it just one identity marker in a world full already of iden ...

INCLUDING ISLAM | 11 mained not just an imperial capital, but the capital of the “Romans”;^33 while the Sa sa nians arguably ret ...

12 | CHAPTER 1 influential Aristotelian tradition that did not become prominent until after the beginning of the First Millenniu ...

INCLUDING ISLAM | 13 compare the consequences for European thought of discovering the Ameri- cas.^39 In the New World, Europeans ...

14 | CHAPTER 1 part of our contemporary intellectual armory. Numerous exponents of mo- dernity have been hostile to any form of ...

INCLUDING ISLAM | 15 must not stifle the irreducible individuality of historical actors. It is not the least of the rewards to b ...

16 | CHAPTER 1 gions with the Iranian plateau and the Eastern Mediterranean as its wings, and as its centerpiece that cradle of ...

INCLUDING ISLAM | 17 I consider what effect adoption of the First Millennium as an alternative periodization might have on study ...

2 TIME BEYOND LATE ANTIQUITY The time has come for scholars, students, and the educated public in general to treat the period be ...

TIME: BEyOND LATE ANTIQUITy | 19 times, particularly about issues of social, cultural, and political identity. This is certainly ...

20 | CHAPTER 2 historical evidence itself rather than because our society is or ever can be Muslim in the sense Momigliano’s was ...

TIME: BEyOND LATE ANTIQUITy | 21 ally, with the Protestant Reformation) a revolution in European thought^6 — more so than Thomas ...

22 | CHAPTER 2 indifference” between the two camps.^12 In his Vindication, Gibbon expands on the historiographical juncture at w ...

TIME: BEyOND LATE ANTIQUITy | 23 Gibbon can almost be said to show true sympathy for the Prophet’s rationali- t y.^17 “The Mahom ...

24 | CHAPTER 2 had a rather restrictive view of its own intellectual formation, which most held to have been completed by the Co ...

TIME: BEyOND LATE ANTIQUITy | 25 in the 1930s, excavation levels from after c. 200 CE were usually discarded. But occasional mis ...