Before and After Muhammad The First Millennium Refocused

Contents

Prefatory note and acknowledgments ix

• Chapter 1. INCLUDING ISLAM Abbreviations xi
  
  
  • The West and the Rest
  
  
  • Edward Gibbon
  
  
  • Islam and late Antiquity
  
  
  • Summary
  
  
  
  


• Chapter 2. TIME: BEYOND LATE ANTIQUITY
  
  
  • The roots of late antique studies
  
  
  • Burckhardt to Strzygowski
  
  
  • The Orient and Islam: Views from Vienna
  
  
  • Pirenne to the present
  
  
  
  


• Chapter 3. A NEW PERIODIZATION: THE FIRST MILLENNIUM
  
  
  • Decline versus transformation
  
  
  • Maturations
  
  
  • Monotheist historiography
  
  
  • For and against the First Millennium
  
  
  
  


• Chapter 4. SPACE: AN EASTWARD SHIFT
  
  
  • Discovering the Mediterranean
  
  
  • Discovering the East
  
  
  • Empires and commonwealths
  
  
  • The Mountain Arena
  
  
  
  


• Chapter 5. EXEGETICAL CULTURES 1: ARISTOTELIANISM
  
  
  • Greek Aristotelianism
  
  
  • Christian polemic
  
  
  • Aristotle in Latin, Armenian, and Syriac
  
  
  • Alexandria to Baghdad
  
  
  • Arabic Aristotelianism
  
  
  
  


• Chapter 6. EXEGETICAL CULTURES 2: LAW AND RELIGION
  
  
  • Roman law
  
  
  • Rabbinic Judaism
  
  
  • Patristic Christianity
  
  
  • Islam