Shared identities : medieval and modern imaginings of Judeo-Islam /
In this controversial study, Aaron W. Hughes breaks with received opinion, which imagines two distinct religions, Judaism and Islam, interacting in the centuries immediately following the death of Muhammad in the early seventh century. Tradition describes these relations using tropes such as that of...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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In this controversial study, Aaron W. Hughes breaks with received opinion, which imagines two distinct religions, Judaism and Islam, interacting in the centuries immediately following the death of Muhammad in the early seventh century. Tradition describes these relations using tropes such as that of 'symbiosis'. Hughes instead argues that various porous groups - neither fully Muslim nor Jewish - exploited a shared terminology to make sense of their social worlds in response to the rapid process of Islamicisation.
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- 1 online resource (232 pages)
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0-19-068448-8
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Print version : 9780190684464
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