Umayyad Christianity: John of Damascus as a Contextual Example of Identity Formation in Early Islam. By Najib George Awad. Islamic History and Thought 12. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias, 2018. x + 484 pp. $57.00 cloth.

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-436
Author(s):  
David Bertaina
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
John Of Damascus

scholarly journals HADITH DAN SEJARAH

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-214
Author(s):  
Khairul Amal
Keyword(s):  
Islamic History ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Early Islamic

This paper attempts to discuss the proper methodology in search for the authentic Islamic History. It discusses the relationship between two sister-disciplines, i.e. ?ad?th and History, their likenesses, many problems which the historians of Early Islam have to face in their research and the possibility of employing unique methodology of the study of ?ad?th on the study of Early Islamic History. The paper benefits from a plethora of monographs written by contemporary scholars of Islamic Studies. I conclude that Isn?d-cum-Matn Analysis developed separately by Gregor Schoeler and Harald Motzki seems promising for the study of Early Islam.This paper attempts to discuss the proper methodology in search for the authentic Islamic History. It discusses the relationship between two sister-disciplines, i.e. ?ad?th and History, their likenesses, many problems which the historians of Early Islam have to face in their research and the possibility of employing unique methodology of the study of ?ad?th on the study of Early Islamic History. The paper benefits from a plethora of monographs written by contemporary scholars of Islamic Studies. I conclude that Isn?d-cum-Matn Analysis developed separately by Gregor Schoeler and Harald Motzki seems promising for the study of Early Islam.

scholarly journals Toward an Abbasid History of Emotions: The Case of Slavery

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Bray
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Moral Boundaries ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

The idea that there can be histories of everything or anything has not yet taken root in the field of Islamic history, which is still dominated by political history. There has been a revival of women's history, and gender studies is flourishing, but these developments have brought about only one radical rethinking of mainstream narratives: Nadia Maria El Cheikh'sWomen, Islam, and Abbasid Identity, which argues that Abbasid society's construction of early Islam and of its own self-image is profoundly gendered, because “Women, gender relations, and sexuality are at the heart of the cultural construction of identity, as they are discursively used to fix moral boundaries and consolidate particularities and differences.”

THE FUTURE OF ISLAM, 1672–1924

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 961-991
Author(s):  
FARIDAH ZAMAN
Keyword(s):  
Islamic History ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
The Future ◽  
Muslim Scholars

This article examines the ways in which defining the character of early Islam has been instrumental to contemporary political debates at distinct moments in time. It looks in particular at Restoration-era England and the last decades of the Ottoman Caliphate. In the latter period, European and Muslim scholars alike reappraised Islamic history in the context of the often polemical discourse surrounding pan-Islamism and the future of Islam. Indian Muslim writers especially moved into new and inventive historical territory. They took up the vocabulary of modern politics in their histories and in doing so pluralized the heritage of certain ideas and concepts, including democracy, constitutionalism, republicanism, and socialism. The result was the articulation of a usable, progressive Islamic past.

scholarly journals AWAL RADIKALISME ISLAM: PENYEBAB KEMUNCULAN KHAWA

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 225
Author(s):  
Ahmad Choirul Rofiq
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Developmental Phase ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Geographical Factor ◽  
Radical Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
Historical Root

<p>In Islamic history, the emergence of <em>khawarij</em> is considered to be the first seed of Islamic radicalism. Studies on this radical group cannot be separated from the period of early Islam when it emerged. As a political movement and school of theology, this group was shaped by the social and political constellations in its time.  This article traces the historical root of this early radical group in Islam. Historians argue that the birth of <em>khawarij</em> was caused by political cleavage and tension upon Caliph Ali ibn Talib and Muawiya ibn Sufyan friction. However, the embryo of <em>khawarij</em> was in fact discovered during the time of the Prophet represented by Dhu al-Khuwaysirah in the course of the post Hunayn War. Various factors spurred the rise of <em>khawarij</em>, ranging from geographical factor, fanaticism, Shiffin War to provocation from Abd Allah ibn Saba’. <em>Khawarij</em> developed as one major stream in Muslim theology and broke into several extreme and radical splinter groups. The development of <em>khawarij</em> covers three phases: religious thought, political movement and political power.</p><p>Keywords: <em>khawarij</em>, developmental phase, opposition</p>

scholarly journals PRELIMINARY NOTES ON ISLAMIC POLITICAL SPACE: MADINA IN QUR’ANIC DISCOURSE

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hazem Ziada
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Political Space ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
The City

<p>Is there a particularly Islamic political space? This paper initiates this long-term research project of spatializing early Islamic history, drawing on the Qur’ān’s own spatial discourse. The project seeks to articulate the roles space plays in early Islam’s political project. Within this framework, this paper defends the assertion that early Islam presents socio-political relationships which suggest <em>al-madina </em>–a particular conception of the ‘city’ - as a pivotal locus in this formative political space. Arguments focus on the origins of such a conception in its Meccan Qur’ānic occurrences. Four  preliminary features emerge: the <em>madina’s </em>association with Qur’ānic journey- narratives and debates of legitimate authority; its environmental connection to a productive hinter-land; its association with a trans-tribal social structure; and its evocation of a public-sphere. Set against the historical background of late-antiquity in which the first Muslim <em>umma </em>appeared and where concurrently the city, as a social artifact, faced threats of dispersion and irrelevance, these features potentially constitute a program for the emergent <em>umma </em>to salvage urbanity itself. In a later paper, evidence from the Prophet’s acts in al-Madina (Yathrib) and his Companions’ developments of other urban settlements, especially al-Kufa, will be engaged to substantiate the relation between Qur’ānic text and human action.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>K</strong><strong>e</strong><strong>y</strong><strong>w</strong><strong>o</strong><strong>r</strong><strong>d</strong><strong>s</strong>:  Qur’anic verses, political space, Muslim <em>umma</em>, <em>madina</em></p>

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