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Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World is a 1977 book about the early history of Islam by the historians Patricia Crone and Michael Cook. Drawing on archaeological evidence and contemporary documents in Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin and Syriac, Crone and Cook depict an early Islam very different from the traditionally-accepted version derived from Muslim historical accounts.

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  • الهاجريّون: دراسة في المرحلة التكوينيّة للإسلام هو كتاب صدر سنة 1977 عن التاريخ المبكر لدين الإسلام من قبل المؤرخين باتريشيا كرون ومايكل كوك. اعتماداً على الأدلة الأثرية والوثائق المعاصرة باللغات العربية، والأرمينية، والقبطية، واليونانية، والعبرية، والآرامية، واللاتينية والسريانية، وأعطى المؤلفان فيه تصوراً مختلفاً للإسلام قائم أساساً على المسيحية واليهودية، وذلك على عكس التصور التاريخي الإسلامي التقليدي الوارد في كتب التراث العربي الإسلامي. وقد أثار الكتاب جدلاً واسعاً على الرغم من اعتباره إضافة لعلم التأريخ الإسلامي. (ar)
  • Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World is a 1977 book about the early history of Islam by the historians Patricia Crone and Michael Cook. Drawing on archaeological evidence and contemporary documents in Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin and Syriac, Crone and Cook depict an early Islam very different from the traditionally-accepted version derived from Muslim historical accounts. According to the authors, "Hagarenes" was a term which near-contemporary sources used to name an Arab movement of the 7th century CE whose conquests and resultant caliphate were inspired by Jewish messianism. Crone and Cook contend that an alliance of Arabs and Jews sought to reclaim the Promised Land from the Byzantine Empire, that the Qur'an consists of 8th-century edits of various Judeo-Christian and other Middle-Eastern sources, and that Muhammad was the herald of Umar "the redeemer", a Judaic messiah. Although the hypotheses proposed in Hagarism have been criticized, even by the authors themselves, the book has been hailed as a seminal work in its branch of Islamic historiography. The book questioned prevailing assumptions about traditional sources, proposing new interpretations that opened avenues for research and discussion. It connected the history of early Islam to other areas, from Mediterranean late antiquity to theories of acculturation. Following earlier critical work by Goldziher, Schacht, and Wansbrough, it challenged scholars to use a much wider methodology, including techniques already used in biblical studies. It is thus credited for provoking a major development of the field, even though it might be viewed more as a "what-if" experiment than as a research monograph. (en)
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  • 978-0521297547
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  • Cover of the first edition (en)
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  • United States (en)
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  • English (en)
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  • Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World (en)
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  • The Crone-Cook theory has been almost universally rejected. The evidence offered by the authors is far too tentative and conjectural to conclude that Arab-Jewish relations were as intimate as they would wish them to have been. ... The book, nevertheless, has raised serious and legitimate questions by emphasizing the difficulty in employing the Muslim sources for a reconstruction of Islamic origins. (en)
  • Unsurprisingly, the Crone-Cook interpretation has failed to win general acceptance among Western Orientalists, let alone Muslim scholars. However, their approach does squarely confront the disparities between early Arabic tradition on the Conquest period and the accounts given by Eastern Christian and Jewish sources. The rhetoric of these authors may be an obstacle for many readers, for their argument is conveyed through a dizzying and unrelenting array of allusions, metaphors, and analogies. More substantively, their use of the Greek and Syriac sources has been sharply criticized. In the end, perhaps we ought to use Hagarism more as a 'what-if' exercise than as a research monograph, but it should not be ignored. (en)
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  • An Introduction to Islam (en)
  • Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry (en)
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  • الهاجريّون: دراسة في المرحلة التكوينيّة للإسلام هو كتاب صدر سنة 1977 عن التاريخ المبكر لدين الإسلام من قبل المؤرخين باتريشيا كرون ومايكل كوك. اعتماداً على الأدلة الأثرية والوثائق المعاصرة باللغات العربية، والأرمينية، والقبطية، واليونانية، والعبرية، والآرامية، واللاتينية والسريانية، وأعطى المؤلفان فيه تصوراً مختلفاً للإسلام قائم أساساً على المسيحية واليهودية، وذلك على عكس التصور التاريخي الإسلامي التقليدي الوارد في كتب التراث العربي الإسلامي. وقد أثار الكتاب جدلاً واسعاً على الرغم من اعتباره إضافة لعلم التأريخ الإسلامي. (ar)
  • Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World is a 1977 book about the early history of Islam by the historians Patricia Crone and Michael Cook. Drawing on archaeological evidence and contemporary documents in Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin and Syriac, Crone and Cook depict an early Islam very different from the traditionally-accepted version derived from Muslim historical accounts. (en)
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  • هاجرية (كتاب) (ar)
  • Hagarism (en)
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