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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren), 1936- author.     Subjects     Islam -- History.     Arabs -- History -- To 622.     Islamic Empire -- History -- 622-661.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren), 1936- author.       by title:      The crucible of Isla...         MARC Display

The crucible of Islam / G. W. Bowersock. by Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren), 1936- author. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017. Subjects Islam -- History.   Arabs -- History -- To 622.   Islamic Empire -- History -- 622-661. ISBN:  9780674057760 (hardcover : alk. paper) : 0674057767 (hardcover : alk. paper) Description:  220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm Contents:  The Arabian kingdom of Abraha -- Arab paganism in late antiquity -- Late antique Mecca -- Ethiopia and Arabia -- The Persians in Jerusalem -- Muhammad and Medina -- Interregnum of the four caliphs -- A new dispensation -- The Dome of the Rock. Requests:  0 Summary:  Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century CE. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account for nearly a quarter of the global population. G. W. Bowersock seeks to illuminate this most obscure and yet most dynamic period in the history of Islam--from the mid-sixth to mid-seventh century--exploring why arid Arabia proved to be such fertile ground for Muhammad's prophetic message, and why that message spread so quickly to the wider world. In Muhammad's time Arabia stood at the crossroads of great empires, a place where Christianity, Judaism, and local polytheistic traditions vied for adherents. Mecca, Muhammad's birthplace, belonged to the part of Arabia recently conquered by the Ethiopian Christian king Abraha. But Ethiopia lost western Arabia to Persia following Abraha's death, while the death of the Byzantine emperor in 602 further destabilized the region. Within this chaotic environment, where lands and populations were traded frequently among competing powers and belief systems, Muhammad began winning converts to his revelations. In a troubled age, his followers coalesced into a powerful force, conquering Palestine, Syria, and Egypt and laying the groundwork of the Umayyad Caliphate. The crucible of Islam remains an elusive vessel. Although we may never grasp it firmly, Bowersock offers the most detailed description of its contours and the most compelling explanation of how one of the world's great religions took shape.--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 297.09021 Bo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 297.09021 Bowers Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 297.09021 Bo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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