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Belief -- A Historical Reconstruction
Feb. 15th, 2005 11:58 amReconstructing Early Islam: Truth and Consequences
Chase F. Robinson, Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins, Herbert Berg, ed., pp. 101-134.
What is: a history of Islam?
"I shall begin with general comments about 'Islam,' turn to some models and assumptions shared by Orientalists and historians on the one hand, and Muslim modernists of both the politically minded...and apolitical variety on the other, and conclude with more general comments about late antiquity and early Muslims." (p. 102)
( Article Notes... )
Chase F. Robinson, Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins, Herbert Berg, ed., pp. 101-134.
What is: a history of Islam?
"I shall begin with general comments about 'Islam,' turn to some models and assumptions shared by Orientalists and historians on the one hand, and Muslim modernists of both the politically minded...and apolitical variety on the other, and conclude with more general comments about late antiquity and early Muslims." (p. 102)
( Article Notes... )
