Description: Good; Hardcover, Missing Jacket; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Clean covers with minor edgewear; Ink stamp to the top textblock edge while the right and bottom textblock edges are unblemished; Library stamps to the endpapers; Couple of tiny spot-marks to pages 74/75, otherwise text pages are all clean & unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.6 lbs; Black cloth covers with title in gold lettering along spine; 1977, Cambridge University Press; 268 pages; "Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World," by Patricia Crone & Michael Cook. Seller Background: We are a small, online bookseller based out of Bellingham, WA specializing in modern rare and out-of-print titles. We have been active in the book trade for over ten years and have been an active Ebay member since 2002. 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The buyer is responsible for return shipping on all discretionary returns. If the return is due to an error in our description or from damage caused by the shipping carrier we will reimburse all shipping costs paid by the buyer. Book Info: This is a controversial study of the origins of Islamic civilisation, first published in 1977. By examining non-Muslim sources, the authors point out the intimate link between the Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam. As a serious, scholarly attempt to open up a new, exploratory path of Islamic history, the book has already engendered much debate. This paperback edition will make the authors conclusions widely accessible to teachers and students of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. (Customer Review): As the other reviews to this book seem to have been written by reviewers with an axe to grind, I thought that I would say a few words about this short book. The first important thing to understand is that while Cook and Crone, both reputable scholars, put forth a carefully argued thesis here, their view is very much the minority view among non-Muslim scholars of Islam. The controversial element: while Muhammad was likely a real person, an migrant who founded a movement around 622, most other elements of early Islamic tradition, including the revelation of the Quran and the central role of Mecca, are likely invented traditions fabricated in the latter part of the seventh century. While it is difficult to imagine that Islam as we think of it was invented after the conquests (circa 633-650), the Cook/Crone thesis is not without hard evidence. For example, coins with Quranic verses differ from the official version sixty years after it was supposedly standardized by Uthman. Some early non-Muslim sources - of very limited quantity - do seem to support a radically different story than the standard one. The fact that the tradition was not written down until well over a century after the fact certainly calls it into question if it is contradicted by other evidence, however sketchy. One element of the thesis I find interesting is the argument that the break between Muslims and Jews took place not in the late 620s, as Muslim tradition claims, but after the conquest of Palestine. Only then, so the argument goes, was the focus of Islam reoriented toward Mecca from Palestine. I find this interesting because it would throw a great deal of light onto how exactly the Muslims managed their amazing conquests with so much apparent ease. That Christians and Jews in Palestine and Syria were unhappy with Byzantium is widely known, but this thesis adds much to that point. , otherwise unmarked; (Customer Review): The historic interpretation of the Koran is, for political reasons, still in its infacy. This book is a valuable first step. When the "Christoph Luxenberg" book is translated into English this year (2004), it will stimulate more interest. For a good overview of the issues presented, go to Atlantic Monthly (on-line), Jan 1999, and check out the article by Toby Lester "What is the Koran?" Inventory #: SKU-0013AH07110134
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Language: English
Book Title: Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World
Author: Patricia Crone & Michael Cook