Social Origins Of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse

Contents

Introduction vii Part I: The Ground one. The Ideology of the Horizons 3 Horizon, Vision, Settlement—Halting and Discourse—The Camel, the Path, and the Marketplace two. Socioeconomy and the Horizon of Thought 17 Sedentarization—Money, Trade, and Abstract Thought—Mecca— The Nomadic Flux—Kinda three. Social Time, Death, and the Ideal 53 Rendering the Experience—Idealization and the Past—Mortality and the Future—Waiting four. Pre-Islamic Ontotheology and the Method of Knowledge 79 Paganism and the Idea of the Ritual—Reformers, Hanifism, Pagan Monotheism—Examples and Commentary five. The Discourse and the Path 115 Forms, Codes, Words—Nature, Text, Ruins—The Wandering Logic— Sources of Structural Stability Part II: The Faith six. Prophetic Constitution 143 The Land Dreams of a Prophet—Constitution of Sagehood: Knowledge, Foreknowledge—The Tear of the Poet and the Fear of the Prophet: Failures of Belonging Contents seven. The House of the Umma and the Spider Web of the Tribe 179 The Tribe—The Ruins of the Tribe—Fitnah, Hijra, War—The Satanic Verses and Their Background—The Boundaries of the Umma— Hudaybiyyah and the Paradigms of the Umma eight. Austerity, Power, and Worldly Exchange 231 Death, Subjectivity, and Identity—Austerity, Justice, Perishing: Moses and ‘Ubayd—God’s Contracts—War and the Code of Justice—Fate and the Legitimacy of Acquisition nine. In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Origins, the System, and the Accident 257 Notes 271 Bibliography 299 Index 305 ...