Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse

by Mohammed A. Bamyeh

Explores the genesis of Islam for insight into the nature of ideological transformation.

The story of the origins of Islam provides a rich and suggestive example of sweeping cultural transformation. Incorporating both innovation and continuity, Islam built upon the existing cultural patterns among the peoples of the Arabian peninsula even as it threatened to eradicate these same patterns. In this provocative interdisciplinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816632642
• ISBN13: 9780816632640
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"