Patricia Crone's 'Collected studies in three volumes' brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 3, 'Islam, the ancient Near East and varieties…
Patricia Crone's 'Collected Studies in Three Volumes' brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. 'Volume 2, The Iranian reception of Islam: The non-tr…
This volume pursues the reconstruction of the religious environment in which Islam arose and develops an intertextual approach to studying the Qur'anic religious milieu.
Patricia Crone's 'Collected studies in three volumes' brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes.
Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 1, The Qurʼānic Pagans and Related Matters , pur…
Patricia Crone's 'Collected Studies in Three Volumes' brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 1, 'The Qur'anic pagans and related matters', …
Patricia Crone's 'Collected Studies in Three Volumes' brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 1, 'The Qur'anic pagans and related matters', …
Book of Idols
by Project Muse, Faris, Nabih Amin, Ibn al-Kalbī
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
Here, in the translation and edition of Nabih A. Faris of the American University at Beirut, is the text of the unique Arabic source on the idols and worship of pagan Arabia. The influence of pagan Arabia on the development of Islam is increasingly recognized by modern scholars,…