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==Overview==
==Overview==

Revision as of 02:47, 25 December 2012


Early Islamic Studies is a field of research that specializes in the study of formative Islam in its Jewish-Christian setting.

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Overview

The connections between formative Islam and late antique Judaism and Christianity have long deserved the attencion of scholars of Islamic origins. Since the 19th century, Muhammad’s early Christian background, on the one hand, his complex attitude – and that of his immediate followers – towards both Jews and Christians, on the other hand, and, finally, the presence of Jewish and Christian religious motifs in the Quranic text and in the Hadith corpus, have been widely studied in the West. Yet from the 1970s onwards, a seemingly major shift has taken place in the study of Islam origins. Whereas the grand narratives of Islamic origins traditionally contained in the earliest Muslim writings have been usually taken to describe with some accuracy the hypothetical emergence of Islam in mid-7th-century Arabia, they are nowadays increasingly regarded as too late and ideologically biased – in short, as too eulogical – to provide a reliable picture of Islamic origins. Accordingly, new timeframes going from the late 7th to the mid-8th century (i.e. from the Marwanids to the Abbasids) and alternative, mainly Syro-Palestinian, spatial locations are currently being explored. Likewise, the earliest Islamic community is presently regarded by many scholars as a somewhat indetermined monotheistic group that evolved from an original Jewish-Christian milieu into a distinct Muslim group perhaps much later than commonly assumed and in a rather unclear way. Finally, a renewed attention is also being paid to the once very plausible pre-canonical and pre-editorial redactional stage of the Qur’an, a book that many contemporary scholars agree to be a kind of “palimpsest” originally formed by different, independent, writings in which encripted passages from the OT Pseudepigrapha, the NT Apocrypha, and several Christian hymns may be found.

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