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Jan 18, 2016 · James Howard-Johnston, Before and After Muhammad: The First Millennium Refocused, by Garth Fowden, The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 547, December 2015, Pages 1515–1517, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cev289
- James Howard-Johnston
- 2015
Mar 17, 2014 · After a number of years dedicated to other projects, including a fascinating study on the iconography of the late Umayyad palace of Quṣayr ʿAmra, Fowden has now returned to history on the grand scale with Before and After Muḥammad: The First Millennium Refocused.
As sufferers can attest, mod-ern painkillers may not work all that much better than vinage. Garth Fowden, Before and After Muhammad: The First Millennium Refocused. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, 230; 2 maps. $35. ISBN: 978- 0-691-15853-2. doi:10.1086/689638 Fārābī, writing in Baghdad in the middle of the ...
Jan 1, 2015 · Before and After Muḥammad: The First Millennium Refocused by Garth Fowden. January 2015. Journal of Late Antiquity 8 (1):247-249. DOI: 10.1353/jla.2015.0005. Authors: Stephen J. Shoemaker. To...
- Stephen J. Shoemaker
Opening up to the whole first millennium allows one to begin with Augustus and Jesus, the establishment of Roman hegemony in the East and the birth of Christianity, and to go until the full “maturation” of Islam and the Arabic adaptation of Greek philosophy (Avicenna composes a new synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy in 1001).
Garth Fowden identifies the whole of the First Millennium--from Augustus and Christ to the formation of a recognizably Islamic worldview by the time of the philosopher Avicenna--as the proper chronological unit of analysis for understanding the emergence and maturation of the three monotheistic faiths across Eurasia.
Nov 21, 2013 · Before and After Muhammad: The First Millennium Refocused. Garth Fowden. Princeton University Press, Nov 21, 2013 - History - 248 pages. A new historical framework integrating Islam into...
