Ecumenical community: language and politics of the ummah in the Qurʼan
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Main Author: Zafer, Hamza M. (Author)
Format: Thesis/Dissertation Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2021]
Series:Texts and studies on the Qur'ān volume 17
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004442993
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004442993
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004442993
Abstract:"In Ecumenical Community, Hamza M. Zafer explores the language and politics of community-formation in the Qurʼan. Zafer proposes that ecumenism, or the inclusivity of social difference, was a key alliance-building strategy in the western Arabian proto-Muslim communitarian movement (1st/7th century). The Proto-Muslims imagined that their pietistic community-the ummah-transcended but did not efface prior social differences based in class, clan, and custom. In highlighting the inclusive orientation of the Qurʼan's ummah-building program, Zafer provides new insights into the development of early Islam and the period preceding the Arab conquests"--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (X, 217 Seiten)
ISBN:9789004442993
DOI:10.1163/9789004442993