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Author:   John Tolan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.376kg
ISBN:  

9781032178196

ISBN 10:   1032178191
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   30 September 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction JOHN TOLAN PART I: Narratives of triumph and defeat 1 The contours of Abrahamic identity: a Zoroastrian perspective YISHAI KIEL 2 The twilight of the ancient gods DANUTA SHANZER 3 Simon the god: imagining the other in second-century Christianity DUNCAN E. MACRAE 4 Contested ground in Gaza: the narrative of triumphalist Christianity CLAUDIA RAPP 5 Between Jerome and Augustine of Hippo: some intellectual preoccupations of Late Antiquity MOHAMED-ARBI NSIRI PART II: Forging legal paradigms 6 What is “Islamic” about geonic depictions of the Oral Torah? MARC HERMAN 7 Reevaluating the role of the Epigones (tabiʿun) in the formation of Islamic ritual and jurisprudence MOHAMMED HOCINE BENKHEIRA 8 Recording debts in Sufyānid Fusṭāṭ: a reexamination of the procedures and calendar in use in the first/seventh century MATHIEU TILLIER AND NAÏM VANTHIEGHEM 9 Slavery and sexual ethics: divergence and change in Hanafi legal discourse KAREN MOUKHEIBER PART III: Contemporary echoes 10 Teaching early Islam: the gap between school and the internet in British schooling PHILIP WOOD 11 The Shahada and the creation of an Islamic identity SULEIMAN A. MOURAD

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John Tolan has studied at Yale University, USA (BA Classics), University of Chicago, USA (MA and PhD History) and the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (HDR); he is Professor of History at the University of Nantes, France and member of the Academia Europaea. He has been awarded numerous prizes and distinctions, including two major grants from the European Research Council and the Prix Diane Potier-Boès from the Académie Française (2008). He is author of numerous articles and books, including Petrus Alfonsi and His Medieval Readers (1993), Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination (2002), Sons of Ishmael (2008), Saint Francis and the Sultan (2009) and Muhammad the European (2019).

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