Studia-Islamica

Martin Kerr, Basil Lourié, Marijn van Putten ve Tommaso Tesei Remapping Emergent Islam: Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories Edited by Carlos A. Segovia (Amsterdam University Press, 2019) This multidisciplinary collective volume aims at moving forward the scholarly discussion on Islam’s origins by simultaneously paying attention to three domains whose intersections need to be examined afresh to get a more-or-less clear picture of the concurrent phenomena that made possible the gradual emergence of a new religious identity and the progressive delimitation of its initially fuzzy boundaries. It therefore deals with the renewed analysis of texts, social contexts, and/or ideological developments relevant for the study Islam’s beginnings – taking the latter expression in its broadest possible sense. Contributors include Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Daniel Beck, José Costa, Gilles Courtieu, Emilio González Ferrín, Aaron W. Hughes, Ahmad al-Jallad, Robert M. Kerr, Basil Lourié, Marijn van Putten, Carlos A. Segovia, and Tommaso Tesei.

g studies on the “sectarian milieu” out of which Islam emerged. In his view, Islam grew out of different – albeit rather marginal – Jewish and Christian traditions whose intertwinings deserve being studied. In the present volume, which is dedicated to Wansbrough’s memory, specialists in Islamic studies and students of the Jewish and early Christian traditions out of which Islam presumably arose summarise Wansbrough’s achievements in the past thirty years. The volume also goes a step further by setting forth new landmarks for the study of the traditions implied in Wansbrough’s aforementioned concept of the “sectarian milieu” from which Islam emerged, perhaps later than is commonly assumed and in a rather unclear, even ambiguous way.