You have no items in your shopping cart.
Close
Search
Filters

Mohammed and Islam

By Ignaz Goldziher; Translated by Kate Seelye; Introduction to the 1917 edition by Morris Jastrow; Introduction to the 2009 edition by Douglas Pratt
Ignaz Goldziher was a pre-eminent scholar of Islam during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book encapsulates his own lifetime of work and provides something of an historical commentary on his epoch in the Western academic study of Islam. One of its strengths is that Goldziher’s investigation of historical development probes into underlying religious motivations and allied theological issues. The book quickly became a classic of its day. It remains a classic that, in our day, is well worth re-visiting as it can still inform our understanding of contemporary Islam, whose roots lie in all that Goldziher covers.
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Availability: In stock
SKU (ISBN): 978-1-60724-410-3
  • *
Publication Status: In Print
Publication Date: Oct 27,2009
Interior Color: Black
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Page Count: 394
Languages: English
ISBN: 978-1-60724-410-3
$180.00
Your price: $108.00
Ship to
*
*
Shipping Method
Name
Estimated Delivery
Price
No shipping options

Ignaz Goldziher was a pre-eminent scholar of Islam during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His significance lies in being a relative pioneer in respect to western academics engaging at depth with Arabic language and Muslim scholarship. This book represents the culmination of his life’s work and provides something of a commentary on the development of the Western academic study of Islam. Indeed, Goldziher provides a window onto the historical period he occupied as a scholar and a reference point in respect to that period’s study of Islam. It remains of supreme relevance even today, for his aim is topical and relevant: to articulate, in some detail yet nevertheless in a single-volume summary form, the genesis and development of the religious, legal, and philosophical system that is Islam. Goldziher’s work unpacks the multifaceted dimensions of the emergence and development of this religion, including the way the early Muslim community developed its distinctive patterns of being and doing.

One of the particular strengths of the book is that Goldziher’s investigation of historical development probes into underlying religious motivations and allied theological concepts and issues. Here we are presented with the fruit of a thorough and encompassing scholarship where critical and informed commentary flavours what might otherwise be an interesting but relatively mundane narrative of events. To understand Islam demands understanding Islamic theology and allied religious sensibilities. There is much in Goldziher’s book that can still inform our understanding of contemporary Islam, for its roots lie in all that he covers.

Ignaz Goldziher was a pre-eminent scholar of Islam during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His significance lies in being a relative pioneer in respect to western academics engaging at depth with Arabic language and Muslim scholarship. This book represents the culmination of his life’s work and provides something of a commentary on the development of the Western academic study of Islam. Indeed, Goldziher provides a window onto the historical period he occupied as a scholar and a reference point in respect to that period’s study of Islam. It remains of supreme relevance even today, for his aim is topical and relevant: to articulate, in some detail yet nevertheless in a single-volume summary form, the genesis and development of the religious, legal, and philosophical system that is Islam. Goldziher’s work unpacks the multifaceted dimensions of the emergence and development of this religion, including the way the early Muslim community developed its distinctive patterns of being and doing.

One of the particular strengths of the book is that Goldziher’s investigation of historical development probes into underlying religious motivations and allied theological concepts and issues. Here we are presented with the fruit of a thorough and encompassing scholarship where critical and informed commentary flavours what might otherwise be an interesting but relatively mundane narrative of events. To understand Islam demands understanding Islamic theology and allied religious sensibilities. There is much in Goldziher’s book that can still inform our understanding of contemporary Islam, for its roots lie in all that he covers.

Write your own review
  • Only registered users can write reviews
*
*
Bad
Excellent
*
*
*
*
ContributorBiography

IgnazGoldziher

(1850-1921)

KateSeelye

MorrisJastrow

DouglasPratt

  • Table of Contents (page 5)
  • Series Foreword (page 7)
  • Introduction to the reprint (page 23)
  • CONTENTS (page 29)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 31)
  • CHAPTER I: MOHAMMED AND ISLAM (page 39)
  • CHAPTER II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAW (page 75)
  • CHAPTER III: DOGMATIC DEVELOPMENT (page 122)
  • CHAPTER IV: ASCETICISM AND SUFIISM (page 186)
  • CHAPTER V: MOHAMMEDAN SECTS (page 252)
  • CHAPTER VI: LATER DEVELOPMENTS (page 333)
  • ERRATA (page 381)
  • INDEX (page 383)
Customers who bought this item also bought
Picture of The Last Empire of Iran

The Last Empire of Iran

As part of the Gorgias Handbook Series, this book provides a political and military history of the Sasanian Empire in Late Antiquity (220s to 651 CE). The book takes the form of a narrative, which situates Sasanian Iran as a continental power between Rome and the world of the steppe nomad.
$90.00 $54.00
ImageFromGFF

Iran as Imagined Nation

A critical study of how Iranian nationalism, itself largely influenced by Orientalist scholarship first undertaken by the European Orientalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has shaped modern conceptions of Iran and Iranian identity, as well as narratives of Iranian history, leading to the adoption of a broad nationalist construction of identity to suit Iranian political and ideological circumstances. This book argues that such a broad-brushed approach and the term “Iranian” could not have applied to the large multiethnic, multilingual, and multicultural populations in the vast territory of Iran over so many distinct historical periods.
$39.00 $23.40
Picture of Aqueducts and Urbanism in Post-Roman Hispania

Aqueducts and Urbanism in Post-Roman Hispania

Our current knowledge of Roman aqueducts across the Empire is patchy and uneven. Even if the development of “aqueduct studies” (where engineering, archaeology, architecture, hydraulics, and other disciplines converge) in recent years has improved this situation, one of the aspects which has been generally left aside is the chronology of their late antique phases and of their abandonment. In the Iberian peninsula, there is to date, no general overview of the Roman aqueducts, and all the available information is distributed across various publications, which as expected, hardly mention the late phases. This publication tackles this issue by analysing and reassessing the available evidence for the late phases of the Hispanic aqueducts by looking at a wide range of sources of information, many times derived from the recent interest shown by archaeologists and researchers on late antique urbanism.
$114.95 $68.97
Picture of Historiography and Hierotopy

Historiography and Hierotopy

Judean hagiographies are unusual. Some are unexpectedly structured: a saint’s life in the form of a history text. Others offer surprising content. Expected hagiographic stylizations, for example, often depict moments in which the saint is offered money for a miracle. In such cases the saint invariably refuses. Judean saints, however, accept gratitude willingly – often with cash amounts recorded. The peculiarities of these works have regularly been examined on literary and theological grounds. The monasteries that produced these texts were utterly dominated by the environment of Christian Jerusalem. Although often commented upon, the unmined implications of this reality hold the key to understanding these hagiographies. It is only by examining these monasteries’ ties to – and embeddedness within – their peculiar context that we can perceive the mindset that produced such baffling texts.
$114.95 $68.97