Review: Arabs and Empires before Islam, ed. Greg Fisher (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2015; pp. xxvii + 580. £120; pb. [2017] £30).
Authors
Marsham, AD
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Abstract
One of the responses to the revisionist scholarship of the 1970s and ’80s on early Islam has been a reinvigorated engagement with the pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula. The revisionists focused their attention on the Islamic tradition and on Islamic-era events. This was in part because of a lack, or perceived lack, of contemporaneous evidence for pre-Islamic Arabia—especially for West Arabia, where Muhammad was said to have been active. Indeed, the possibility that Islam had not originated in West Arabia at all was countenanced.
Publication Date
2019-04-15
Online Publication Date
2018-11-26
Acceptance Date
2018-08-14
Keywords
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Journal Title
English Historical Review
Journal ISSN
1477-4534
1477-4534
1477-4534
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Publisher
Longman