Religious culture in late antique Arabia
Subtitle: selected studies on the late antique religious mind
By: edited by Kirill Dmitriev, Isabel Toral-Niehoff
Series: Islamic history and thought -- 6; Islamic history and thought
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC; Gorgias Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng; fre; ger
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781463206307
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Arab Civilization; Religion; Syriac Christians; History; Church history
Description: 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. The volume adopts a comprehensive approach to the study of religious history and culture. Transcending the boundaries of specific theological systems and ritual practices, it approaches the Late Antique religious mind as formed by shared world-views and cultural concepts, as well as social attitudes and political practices in the Late Antique Near East. In particular, the volume brings together selected studies on the ritual and theological aspects of Late Antique Arabia and on religious aspects of early and classical Arabic poetry. Furthermore, it also includes contributions on religious conversions and their impact on the settlement and other processes within the social history of the Arabs in the Roman and Sasanian Empires, and the early Caliphate. Lastly, two articles are dedicated to the religious history of South Arabia. 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.
Notes: Chapters in English, French, and German.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I.; title: Ritual and Theological Aspects.; title: 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)  -- Konstantin M. Klein; title: The Relationship Between Theological Teaching and Religious Practice by the East-Syrian Christians in Qatar (Sixth-Seventh Centuries)  -- Martin Tamcke. -- II.; title: Re-investigating the Texts of Early and Classical Arabic Poetry.; title: Glory and immortality: the motif of monumentum aere perennius by Samawʼal b. ʻĀdiyāʼ  -- Kirill Dmitriev; title: 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  -- Cornelia Horn; title: Traders, Innkeepers and Cup-Bearers: Foreigners and People of the Book in Arabic Wine Poetry  -- Bruno Paoli. -- III.; title: Religious Identities in the Context of Political and Social History.; title: From Mavia to al-Mundhir: Arab Christians and Arab Tribes in the Late Antique Roman East  -- Greg Fisher; title: Inclusion and Seclusion in Late Antique and Early Medieval Settlement Strategies in Syria and Palestine  -- Mattia Guidetti. -- IV.; title: Perspectives on the Religious History of South Arabia.; title: Altsüdarabische Kulte im vorchristlichen Abessinien  -- Francis Breyer; title: Les évolutions du calendrier dans le royaume de Ḥimyar: quelques hypothèses -- Christian Julien Robin.