Remapping Emergent Islam : Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories (Paperback)

1. Introduction - Carlos A. Segovia,Re-Assessing the Hypothesis of a Peripheral Jewish Background, 2. South Arabian Judaism, Himyarite Rahmanism, and the Origins of Islam - Aaron W. Hughes, 3. The Absence of the Messiah in the Qur'an and the Evidence of Jewish Eschatology - Jose Costa,An Encrypted Manichaean/Messalian Matrix?, 4. The Astral Messenger, The Lunar Redemption, The Solar Salvation: Manichaean Cosmic Soteri-ology in the Qur'an's Archaic Surahs (Q 84, Q 75, Q 54) - Daniel Beck, 5. Binitarianism, Messalianism, and the East-Syrian Background of the Early Quranic Milieu - Carlos A. Segovia,Measuring the World's Timeline= and Imagining the Afterlife at the Persian Court?, 6. The Jewish and Christian Background of the Original Islamic Calendar - Basil Lourie, 7. The Persian Keys to Quranic Paradise - Gilles Courtieu,Conceptual Quicksands, Meta-Narratives of Identity, Texts, and their Marginalia, 8. Extremist Shi'ism and Muhammad's Alleged Message - Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, 9. Echoes of Pseudepigrapha in the Qur'an - Tommaso Tesei, 10. What Do We Mean by the Qur'an? On Palimpsests, Collections, and Inter-Narrative Identity - Emilio Gonzalez Ferrin|Multidisciplinarity, innovative and theoretically sophisticated scholarship. Challenges the more conservative strands of scholarship within the historiography Situates the rise of Islam within the world of Late Antiquity.