Religious Culture in Late Antique Arabia

Selected Studies on the Late Antique Religious Mind

Kirill Dmitriev, Isabel Toral-Niehoff

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781463237219
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Islamic Theology

This volume explores aspects of religious culture in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Arabian Peninsula across Late Antiquity – the period of dynamic and historically crucial developments, culminating in the emergence of Islam. While it would be impossible to provide an exhaustive examination of the topic in a single volume, it is the main aim of this book to further stimulate scholarly research on the Late Antique context of the origins of Islam and the history of early Arab-Muslim culture.

Table of contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• I. RITUAL AND THEOLOGICAL ASPECTS
• THE SILENCE OF THE GODS. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE DESTRUCTION OF PAGAN TEMPLES, SHRINES AND STATUES IN THE LATE ANTIQUE EAST (FROM CONSTANTINE TO MUḤAMMAD)
• THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEOLOGICAL TEACHING AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE BY THE EAST-SYRIAN CHRISTIANS IN QATAR (SIXTH - SEVENTH CENTURIES)
• II. RE-INVESTIGATING THE TEXTS OF EARLY AND CLASSICAL ARABIC POETRY
• GLORY AND IMMORTALITY: THE MOTIF OF MONUMENTUM AERE PERENNIUS BY SAMAWʾAL B. ʿĀDIYĀʾ
• TRACING THE RECEPTION OF THE PROTOEVANGELIUM OF JAMES IN LATE ANTIQUE ARABIA: THE CASE OF THE POETRY OF UMAYYA IBN ABĪ AṢ-ṢALT AND ITS INTERSECTION WITH THE QURAN
• TRADERS, INNKEEPERS AND CUPBEARERS: FOREIGNERS AND PEOPLE OF THE BOOK IN ARABIC WINE POETRY
• III. RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY
• FROM MAVIA TO AL-MUNDHIR: ARAB CHRISTIANS AND ARAB TRIBES IN THE LATE ANTIQUE ROMAN EAST
• INCLUSION AND SECLUSION IN LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT STRATEGIES IN SYRIA AND PALESTINE
• IV. PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF SOUTH ARABIA
• ALTSÜDARABISCHE KULTE IM VORCHRISTLICHEN ABESSINIEN
• LES ÉVOLUTIONS DU CALENDRIER DANS LE ROYAUME DE ḤIMYAR : QUELQUES HYPOTHÈSES