Routledge Handbook on Early Islam

Almost every major debate in the study of Islam and among Muslims looks to the formative period of Islam. This Handbook provides a definitive overview of early Islam and how this period was understood and deployed by later Muslims.

Introduction Herbert Berg Part I: The Qur'an and Muhammad 1. The Qur'an Nicolai Sinai 2. The Qur'an and other scriptures David Cook 3. The collection and canonization of the Qur'an Herbert Berg 4. Muhammad Stephen J. Shoemaker 5. The sira, Pavel Pavlovitch 6. Hadith and sunna Jens Scheiner 7. Exegesis Michael E. Pregill Part II: Identities and communities in early Islam 8. Identity and social formation in the early Caliphate Peter Webb 9. Pre-Islamic Arabia and early Islam Ilkka Lindstedt 10. Early Muslims and peoples of the book Fred M. Donner 11. Politics and economics of the early Caliphate Fanny Bessard 12. The myth of the "Shi'i Perspective": identity and memory in Early Islam, Najam Haider 13. Mysticism in early Islam: The Pre-compilations phase Sara Sviri Part III: Modern and contemporary reinterpretation of early Islam 14. Modernists and their opponents: reading Islam Simon Wood 15. The golden age and the contemporary political order: the Muslim Brotherhood and early Islam Rachel M. Scott 16. Salafis: past to present, present to past Jeffrey T. Kenney 17. Feminist Muslim (re)interpretations of early Islam Aisha Geissinger Part IV: Revisioning early Islam 18. Early Islam: an alternative scenario of its emergence Markus Gross 19. Qur'anists Daniel W. Brown 20. In search of authenticity: modern discourse over homosexuality through early Islam Sara Omar 21. True history in black and white: reimagined origins in the Nation of Islam Herbert Berg 22. Invocations of early Islam in US discourse(s) of Muslim pluralism Justine Howe