Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean, 5)

Preface -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Late Antique responses to the Arab conquests: an introduction / Josephine van den Bent, Floris van den Eijnde and Johan Weststeijn -- The Qurʼanic Rūm: a Late Antique perspective / Clare Wilde -- Wine and impurity in the Sura of the bees: a structuralist interpretation of Qurʼan 16:67 / Johan Weststeijn -- Historical-critical research of the Sīra of the prophet Muhammad: what do we stand to gain? / Harald Motzki -- Arabicization, Islamization, and the colonies of the conquerors / Kevin van Bladel -- Continuity and change: elite responses to the founding of the Caliphate / Peter Webb -- Muḥammad's world in Egypt / Petra M. Sijpesteijn -- "May God be mindful of Yazīd the King": further reflections on the Yazīd inscription and the development of Arabic scripts / Ahmad Al-Jallad -- Of siblings, kingdoms, and the days of the Messiah: Jewish literary responses to the new order in the land of Israel in the first Muslim period / Constanza Cordoni -- New light on the Dark Ages: a Byzantine perspective on the Arab expansion / Joanita Vroom -- Index.ISBN : 9789004500617 Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Chapter 1 Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests: An Introduction 1 Islam and the End of Antiquity: Revisiting the Pirenne Thesis in the Age of Connectivity 2 The Impact of Empire: Tradition and Change 3 A “Late Antique Turn” 4 A Survey of the Contributions to This Volume 4.1 The Qurʾān as a Late Antique Text 4.2 Late Antiquity to Early Islam: A Gradual Transformation 4.3 Adapting to the Arab Conquests 5 A Small Arab World: The Late Antique Arab Conquests from a Network Perspective Bibliography Chapter 2 The Qurʾānic Rūm: A Late Antique Perspective 1 Reading the Qurʾān: Some Introductory Remarks 2 Traditional Tafsīr of Q 30:2–5 3 The Qurʾānic al-Rūm: Some Late Antique Perspectives 4 Jerusalem—Near and Far? 5 Conclusions Bibliography Chapter 3 Wine and Impurity in the Sura of the Bees: A Structuralist Interpretation of Qurʾān 16:67 1 The Debilitating and Polluting Aspects of Sakar 2 The Drinks of Life 3 The Opposition between Pure and Impure in Wine Verse 16:67 4 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 4 Historical-Critical Research of the Sīra of the Prophet Muhammad: What Do We Stand to Gain? 1 The State of Affairs 2 A Story of the Sīra 3 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 5 Arabicization, Islamization, and the Colonies of the Conquerors 1 Arabicization 2 Islamization 3 Patterns of Arabicization and Islamization 4 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 6 Continuity and Change: Elite Responses to the Founding of the Caliphate 1 Conquests and Conquerors? 2 Continuity of Emigrant Communities? 3 Sources 4 Changes to Elite Communities: Poetic Indications 4.1 Terms of Communal Identity 4.2 Spatial Considerations 4.3 The Hajj 4.4 Islam and Poetry 5 An Arabness Case Study: al-Azd in Umayyad Politics 6 Conclusions Bibliography Chapter 7 Muhammad’s World in Egypt 1 Sources and Methods in the Study of Early Islam 2 A New Regime 3 Consumption Patterns and Material Culture 4 Muslim Rule? 5 Patterns of Innovation and Influence Bibliography Chapter 8 “May God be Mindful of Yazīd the King”: Further Reflections on the Yazīd Inscription and the Development of Arabic Scripts 1 Two Other Early Christian Inscriptions and the Shape of the r 2 Is Yazīd the King Really Yazīd i? 3 The Writing School of Medina 4 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 9 Of Siblings, Kingdoms, and the Days of the Messiah: Jewish Literary Responses to the New Order in the Land of Israel in the First Muslim Period 1 The Dissimilar Siblings and Their Dissimilar Offspring 2 Reordering the Kingdoms 3 The Kingdom of Ishmael and Its Role in the Jewish Eschaton 4 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 10 New Light on the Dark Ages: A Byzantine Perspective on the Arab Expansion 1 Introduction 2 Empires in Flux 3 First Case Study: Athens 4 Second Case Study: Butrint 5 Conclusion Acknowledgements Bibliography Index of Names and Subjects Index of Biblical and Qurʾānic References "Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests is a showcase of new discoveries in an exciting and rapidly developing field: the study of the transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam. The contributors to this volume engage with previously neglected sources, such as Arabic rock inscriptions, papyri and Byzantine archaeological remains. They also apply new interpretative methods to the literary tradition, reading the Qur'an as a late antique text, using Arabic poetry as a source to study the gestation of an Arab identity, and extracting settlement patterns of the Arabian colonizers in order to explain regional processes of Arabicization and Islamization. This volume shows how the Arab conquests changed both the Arabian conquerors and the conquered. Contributors are Ahmad Al-Jallad, Josephine van den Bent, Kevin van Bladel, Constanza Cordoni, Floris van den Eijnde, Harald Motzki, Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Joanita Vroom, Peter Webb, Johan Weststeijn, Clare Wilde"-- Provided by publisher. Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests is a showcase of new discoveries in an exciting and rapidly developing field: the study of the transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam. The Arab conquests are shown to have changed both the Arabian conquerors and the conquered.