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The Origin of Islam in Its Christian Environment
About this book
First Published in 1968. This volume is a collection of the Gunning Lectures made at Divinity Hall, Edinburgh University in 1925. The aim of the lectures has been to present the origin of Islam against a background of surrounding Christainity.
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Index I.—Subjects
Names which only occur incidentally have not been included. The article al at the beginning of Arabic names has been omitted. Transliterated words and phrases are printed in italics.
Abbasides, 181, 213
̔Abd, 51
Abraha, 39; his expedition against Mecca, 39 f., 74
Abraham, 58, 129, 130, 131
Abyssinia, Christianity in, 28–32, 35
Abyssinians in South Arabia, 36, 37, 41
̔Ād, 103, 107
Ædesius, 30
Aḥmad, 156
Akhtal, 181
̔Alaq, 77
Alexander the Great, 112
Alexandria, School of, 8
̔Alī, 43, 146
Ali̔ites, 205
Alladhīna āmanū, 148
Alladhīna hādū, 149
Alladhīna kafarū, 73
Allāh, 53 f., 117
Almsgiving, 80, 87
̔Amr b. Mundhir, 27
Anṣār, 150
Anṣār Allāh, 150
Antioch, School of, 8
Apocalyptic, 103, 106; source of Muhammad’s knowledge of, 104
Apocryphal books, Muhammad’s knowledge of, 110, 112
Arab material in Qur’ān, 103, 107
Arabia, Christianity in, 16 f., 26, 27, 33–63; Roman Province of, 20
Arabs in Mesopotamia, 25; in Syria, 18 f.
Aramaic, religious terms derived from, 50 f.
Aretas, v. Ḥārith
Armenian Church, 11
Asceticism in Islam, 200
A̔shā, 43
al-Asmā al-ḥusnā, 116
̔Āshūra, fast, 127
Aswad, 61
Athanasius, 2, 30, 31
Axum, kingdom of, 29 f.
Badr, battle of, 65, 123
Baghdad, 213
Baḥr, 29
Bakr b. Wā’il, tribe, 27
Balances, false, 81 f.
Bani Isrā’il, 121
Bartholomew, apostle, 16, 34
Beast, the, 202
Beggar, in Qur’ān, 81 f.
Bī̔a, 50
Bible, no pre-Muhamm...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Lecture I: The Eastern Church and the Christian Environment of Arabia
- Lecture II: Christianity in South Arabia and its Influence upon the Arabs in general
- Lecture III: The Beginnings of Muhammad’s Religious Activity
- Lecture IV: The Moulding of the Prophet
- Lecture V: The Attitude of the Prophet towards Christianity
- Lecture VI: The Christian Populations at the Arab Conquest
- Lecture VII: Christian Influences in Early Islam
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Qur’ān Passages