HAGARISM
THE MAKING OF THEISLAMIC WORLD
PATRICIA CRONE
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW. THE WARBURG INSTITUTEUNIVERSITY OF LONDON
MICHAEL COOK
LECTURER IN ECONOMIC HISTORY WITH REFERENCETO THE MIDDLE EAST.SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGELONDON. NEW YORK· MELBOURNE
Published by the Syndics of the Cambridge University PressThe Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 I RPBentley House, 200 Euston Road, London NWI 2 DB32 East 57th Street. New York. NY 10022, USA296 Beaconsfield Parade, Middle Park, Melbourne 3206, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1977First publishedin 1977Printed in Malta byInterprint (Malta) Ltd.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Crone. Patricia, 1940-Hagarism: the making of the Islamic world.Bibliography: p.Includes index.
I
. Islam-History. I. Cook, M. A., joint author.II. Title.BP 55.C76 909'.09'7671 7l-41714
ISBN
0-521-21133-6
CONTENTS
Preface
vii
PART I: WHENCE ISLAM?
1 Judeo-Hagarism 32 Hagarism without Judaism 103 The Prophet like Moses 164 The Samaritan calques 215 Babylonia 29Appendix I: The Kenite; Reason and custom 35
PART II: WHITHER ANTIQUITY?
6 The imperial civilizations 417 The Near-Eastern provinces 47
PART III: THE COLLISION
8 The preconditions for the formation of Islamic civilisation 739 The fate of Antiquity: I. The Hagarisation of the Fertile Crescent 8310 The fate of Antiquity: II. The cultural expropriation of the Fertile Crescent 9211 The fate of Antiquity: III. The intransigence of Islamic civilisation 10712 The fate of Hagarism 12013 Sadducee Islam 13014 The austerity of Islamic history 139Appendix II:
Lex Fufia Caninia
and the Muslim law of bequests 149
Notes to the text
152
Bibliography
237
Indices
259
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