An Anxious Inheritance: Religious Others and the Shaping of Sunni Orthodoxy

by Aaron W Hughes and Aaron W. Hughes

An Anxious Inheritance reveals the tensions between the early framers of Islam and the ever-expandable category of non-Muslims. Examining the encounter with these religious others, and showing how the Qur'an functioned as both a script to understand them and a map to classify them, this study traces the key role that these religious others played in what would ultimately emerge as (Sunni) orthodoxy. This orthodoxy would appear to be the natural outgrowth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197613470
• ISBN13: 9780197613474
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.7"