The Arabs and Islam in Late Antiqiuity: a Critique of Approaches to Arabic Sources (Hardcover)

The purpose of this study is to consider the value and relevance of these sources for the reconstruction of the social, political, cultural and religious history of the Arabs as they were still pagans, and to reconstruct the emergence of Muhammadan and immediately post-Muhammadan religion and polity. -- This is the first book in a new series entitled Theories and Paradigms of Islamic Studies.