The early creed

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ID23177105
AutoresKhalid Yahya Blankinship (University of Cambridge, autor correspondente), Khalid Blankinship
Ano2008
Páginas33-54
Data de publicação2008-05-22
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoThe Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology (Cambridge Companions to Religion) (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/ccol9780521780582.003
OpenAlexW2504863019
ISBN9780521780582
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14

The intellectual milieu of seventh-century Mecca and Medina into which the Qur'an came was rustic, and bore no resemblance to the environment of the urbanised, far more literate societies of the organised empires of the Romans and Persians to the north. While literacy was nowhere widespread in early medieval times, it seems to have been especially lacking in the Arabian peninsula, where the prevalent Arabic language appears not to have possessed a written literature before the seventh century. On the other hand, the groundwork for Islam had apparently been laid orally, for the Qur'an presupposes a society of a certain sophistication of thought. Part of this sophistication was a familiarity with monotheism (Qur'an 29:61, 63; 31:25; 39:38; 43:9, 87), despite the well-entrenched and confident paganism native to the Arabs. While Arab familiarity with the monotheistic idea is unmistakably the fruit of centuries-old contact with Judaism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism, Arab isolation persisted, and knowledge of the abstract thought of the neighbouring high cultures was limited.

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Astrology · Christianity · Creed · Islam · Judaism · Literacy · Literature · Monotheism · Paganism · Sociology · Sophistication · Theology · Zoroastrianism · Classics · Education and Islamic Studies · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Religious studies

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