Social Origins Of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse - Softcover

Bamyeh, Mohammed A.

 
9780816632640: Social Origins Of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816632642 ISBN 13: 9780816632640
Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 1998

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Explores the genesis of Islam for insight into the nature of ideological transformation.

The story of the origins of Islam provides a rich and suggestive example of sweeping cultural transformation. Incorporating both innovation and continuity, Islam built upon the existing cultural patterns among the peoples of the Arabian peninsula even as it threatened to eradicate these same patterns. In this provocative interdisciplinary study, Mohammed A. Bamyeh combines perspectives from sociology, literary studies, anthropology, and economic history to examine the cultural ecology that fostered Islam.

Highlighting the pivotal connections in pre-Islamic society between the emergence of certain economic practices (such as trade and money-based exchange), worldview (as rendered in pre-Islamic literature and theology), and the reconfiguration of transtribal patterns of solidarity and settlement, Bamyeh finds in the genesis of Islam a sophisticated model for examining ideological transformation in general.

At the heart of Bamyeh's enterprise are close readings of both the Qur'an and the pre-Islamic poetry that preceded it. Bamyeh uncovers in these texts narrative and pedagogical content, poetic structure, use of metaphor, and historical references that are suggestive of societies in transition. He also explores the expressive limits of the pre-Islamic literature and its transmutation into Qur'anic speech in the wake of social transformation.

Emphasizing the organic connections between belief structures, economic formations, and modes of discourse in pre-Islamic Arabia, The Social Origins of Islam explains how various material and discursive changes made the idea of Islam possible at a particular point in history. More broadly, it persuasively demonstrates how grand cultural shifts give rise to new systems of faith.

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Mohammed A. Bamyeh teaches social theory and comparative civilizations at the Gallatin School of New York University and is editor of Passages: Journal of Transnational and Transcultural Studies.

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Verlag
University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0816632642
ISBN 13 
9780816632640
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
332
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