RELS319R

Cross-listed with RELS319R. The conditions of emergence and the subsequent elaboration of Islam from pre-Islamic Arabia to the classical Abbasid period (9-1 0th c. CE). The question of the appearance of Islam in a Late Antique context will be particularly scrutinized, as well as the making of a discrete Muslim identity. Specific topics include: Arabia and the Arabs before Islam; Late Antique Near East; The Prophet Muhammad; Quran and Hadith; The Rise of Islam; The Islamic Caliphate; Elites old and new; Art and the lite.