Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World

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Cambridge University Press, Feb 28, 1980 - History - 277 pages
This is a controversial study of the origins of Islamic civilisation, first published in 1977. By examining non-Muslim sources, the authors point out the intimate link between the Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam. As a serious, scholarly attempt to open up a new, exploratory path of Islamic history, the book has already engendered much debate. This paperback edition will make the authors' conclusions widely accessible to teachers and students of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.

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Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World
Professor of Islamic History at the Institute for Advanced Study Patricia Crone,Patricia Crone,Michael Cook,Professor of Near Eastern Studies Michael Cook, Dr
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About the author (1980)

Patricia Crone was born on March 28, 1945 in Kyndelose, Denmark. She received undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She taught at Oxford University and Cambridge University before joining the Institute for Advanced Study, an independent research center, where she was a professor from 1997 until retiring in 2014. She explored archaeological records and contemporary Greek and Aramaic sources to challenge views on the roots and evolution of Islam. She wrote numerous books during her lifetime including Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World written with Michael Cook, God's Rule: Government and Islam: Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought, and The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran. She died from cancer on July 11, 2015 at the age of 70.

Bibliographic information

TitleHagarism: The Making of the Islamic World
AuthorsPatricia Crone, Michael Cook
PublisherCambridge University Press, 1980
ISBN0521297540, 9780521297547
Length277 pages
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