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Gabriel Said Reynolds – Christianity and the Qur’an

Gabriel Said Reynolds Christianity and the Qur’an review, recensie en informatie boek over de opkomst van de islam in christelijk Arabië. Op 2 september 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek van Gabriel Said Reynolds, Crowley Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Gabriel Said Reynolds Christianity and the Qur’an review en recensie

  • “Gabriel Reynolds is one of the leading scholars of the Qur’an working anywhere in the world today. Christianity and the Qur’an represents the culmination of many years of meticulous study on this topic. Reynolds skillfully synthesizes a vast amount of disparate secondary scholarship, combining this with his deep knowledge of the Qur’anic text to make a very interesting and important argument about Christianity and the Qur’an’s environment, audience, and overall purpose. It will be an instant classic and point of reference for further studies in this area.” (Jack Tannous, Princeton University)
  • “Gabriel Said Reynolds—one of the most creative and consequential scholars in Qur’anic studies today—helps us see Islam’s holy book as if anew: as a text profoundly shaped by the Christian communities and ideas that saturated late antique Arabia. A bold, thought-provoking portrait of the Qur’an and its fundamental relationship with Christianity.” (Christian Sahner, University of Oxford)
  • “A must-read for all students and scholars interested in studying the Qurʾan in its formative period. Reynolds’ handling of the secondary literature is informative, comprehensive, and incisively critical.” (Shady Nasser, Harvard University)

Gabriel Said Reynolds Christianity and the Qur'an

Christianity and the Qur’an

The Rise of the Islam in Christian Arabia

  • Auteur: Gabriel Said Reynolds (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de Islam
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 2 september 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 30.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de opkomst van de Islam in christelijk Arabië

A leading Qur’anic scholar’s revisionary account of how Islam emerged in dialogue with Christian traditions.

Challenging the dominant narrative about the history of the Qur’an and the emergence of Islam in a predominantly pagan context, Gabriel Said Reynolds presents the Qur’an as a text born within a largely Christian culture. As he examines the ways the Qur’an engages with Christian traditions—not only those of the New Testament but also those of late antique Christian literature—and with Christians themselves, Reynolds also draws on recent scholarship on pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions suggesting that monotheism, Christianity in particular, was a significant presence in the pre-Islamic Hijaz, the region in which Muhammad preached.

This study re-situates the Qur’an as a text thoroughly concerned with Christianity, not just the longer narratives of individuals such as Mary and Jesus but also passages that do not mention Christians explicitly. The Qur’an’s stance toward Christianity is on occasion controversial, aiming to advance Islamic theology and undermine Christian apologetical arguments, yet the Qur’an is not always polemical. At times, the text makes use of the audience’s knowledge of the Bible to advance its own vision of God and God’s relationship with humanity.

Gabriel Said Reynolds is the Crowley Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Qur’an and the Bible and Allah: God in the Qur’an. He lives in Granger, Indiana.

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Geschiedenisboeken, Islam

Islam geschiedenis boeken

Islam geschiedenis boeken Islam over de geschiedenis van de moslims. Welke nieuwe boeken over de geschiedenis van de Islam verschijnen er? Wat zijn goede boeken over de historie van de moslims? Wie is de auteur, schrijfster of schrijver van het boek? Wat is het onderwerp en inhoud van de boeken over de geschiedenis van de islamitische religie.

Islam geschiedenis boeken over de historie van de moslims

De Islam is een monotheïstische godsdienst en die gezien wordt als een van de drie grote abrahamitische religies waarbij de andere twee het jodendom en het christendom zijn. Het belangrijkste Islamitische heilige boek, de Koran is volgens de Islam doorgegeven aan Mohammed als profeet en boodschapper via de aartsengel Djibriel (ook wel Gabriël genoemd). De godsdienst verspreidde zich vanaf ongeveer 610 over de wereld. De grootste populatie van mensen die de Islam aanhang bevindt zich tegenwoordig in de landen van Noord-Afrika, het Arabische schiereiland, West- en Midden-Azië, Pakistan, Indonesië en Albanië. Door migratie zijn er ook behoorlijk grote islamitische gemeenschappen ontstaan in Europa en Noord-Amerika. Aanhangers van de Islam worden meestal moslims genoemd.

Rian Thum Islamic China reviewIslamic China

An Asian History

  • Auteur: Rian Thum
  • Soort boek: Chinese geschiedenis, Islamitische geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Harvard University Press
  • Verschijnt: 25 november 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud boek: For more than a millennium, Islam has been a Chinese religion, and native-born Chinese Muslims have played important roles in their homeland—as butchers, merchants, and farmers; diplomats, scholar-officials, and royal astronomers. Yet the Muslims of China have often been understood as inherently foreign, incompatible with Chinese culture. In this reappraisal, Rian Thum recaptures the ordinariness of Chinese Muslims…lees verder >

Gabriel Said Reynolds Christianity and the Qur'an reviewChristianity and the Qur’an

The Rise of the Islam in Christian Arabia

  • Auteur: Gabriel Said Reynolds (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de Islam
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 2 september 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 30.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud boek: Challenging the dominant narrative about the history of the Qur’an and the emergence of Islam in a predominantly pagan context, Gabriel Said Reynolds presents the Qur’an as a text born within a largely Christian culture. As he examines the ways the Qur’an engages with Christian traditions—not only those of the New Testament but also those of late antique Christian literature—and with Christians themselves, Reynolds also draws on recent scholarship on pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions suggesting that monotheism, Christianity in particular, was a significant presence in the pre-Islamic Hijaz, the region in which Muhammad preached…lees verder >

Welke nieuwe boeken over de Islamitische geschiedenis en de Islam verschijnen er?

Onderstaand overzicht bevat nieuwe boeken over de Islamitische geschiedenis. De indeling is over verschijningsdatum waarbij de nieuwste uitgaven bovenaan staan. Links verwijzen naar uitgebreide informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster, schrijver of auteur. Bovendien kun je reviews, recensies en bestelmogelijkheden van de boeken vinden. Naast Nederlandstalige boeken zijn er ook Engelse geschiedenisboeken over de historie van Islam opgenomen.

Michael Cook A History of the Muslim World reviewA History of the Muslim World

From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity

  • Auteur: Michael Cook (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de moslimwereld
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 960 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 27.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
  • Inhoud boek: This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity…lees verder >

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Afbeelding bovenzijde: Masjid al-Haram, Mekka, Saoedi-Arabië (I.H. Adnam, Unsplash)

Amerikaanse historicus, Arabische geschiedenis, Geschiedenisboeken

Michael Cook – A History of the Muslim World

Michael Cook A History of the Muslim World review, recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van de Islam. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van de Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Michael Cook A History of the Muslim World review en recensie

  • “Michael Cook has written a masterpiece that will inform and inspire generations of readers. Seldom has the history of the Muslim world been told so well.” (Roy P. Mottahedeh, Harvard University)
  • “Glorious … Necessarily a dense work, it is also delightful in its sheer scope and variety. This is especially true in a writer as witty as Cook, who sustains a breezy, Socratic style throughout … The payoff for writing a book this ambitious and successful is that, for anyone interested in the history of Islam, Cook is now a must-read.” (Andrew Bernard, Washington Examiner)
  • “A fascinating work. It is written in a lucid and witty style that always tempts you to carry on reading to the bottom of the page, and then to turn over to the next one.” (John McHugo, interLib)

Michael Cook A History of the Muslim World

A History of the Muslim World

From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity

  • Auteur: Michael Cook (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de moslimwereld
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 960 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 27.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van de moslimwereld

This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity.

After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history. It continues with the spectacular rise of the Caliphate, an empire that by the time it broke up had nurtured the formation of a new civilization. It then goes on to cover the diverse histories of all the major regions of the Muslim world, providing a wide-ranging account of the key military, political, and cultural developments that accompanied the eastward and westward spread of Islam from the Middle East to the shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific.

At the same time, A History of the Muslim World contains numerous primary-source quotations that expose the reader to a variety of acutely insightful voices from the Muslim past.

Michael Cook is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His books include Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective (Princeton), A Brief History of the Human Race, and The Koran: A Very Short Introduction.

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Engelse historicus, Geschiedenisboeken

Faisal Devji – Waning Crescent

Faisal Devji Waning Crescent review, recensie en informatie boek over de opkomst en ondergang van de wereldwijde islam. Op 26 augustus 2026 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het nieuwe boek van Faisal Devji de in Islam gespecialiseerde historicus en Beit Hoogleraar Wereld- en Imperiale Geschiedenis en fellow van het Balliol College, Oxford. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Faisal Devji Waning Crescent review en recensie

  • “Faisal Devji has emerged as the preeminent historian of global religion in its most surprising, intractable, and understudied aspects. His newest book is no less original in its stunning and disarming approach. Waning Crescent forms essential reading for a wide audience that will appreciate its erudition and for those rare acute political observers rightly concerned with the present spell cast by our more oppressing spiritual pasts but also intrigued by the normative resources that may yet be found there.” (Hent de Vries, Dutch Philospoher and professor at  New York University)
  • “Every book Faisal Devji writes is important. This biography of Islam as an historical actor is daring, learned, occasionally outrageous, invariably revelatory. Here there is no deference to the Western gaze. Devji gives us not only a study of Islam, but a study of modernity that shifts the world on its axis.” (Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania)

Faisal Devji Waning Crescent

Waning Crescent

The Rise and Fall of Global Islam

  • Auteur: Faisal Devji (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de Islam
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 26 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 280 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 30,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Faisal Devji over de opkomst en ondergang van de wereldwijde islam

A compelling examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor.

Until the nineteenth century, Islam was variously understood as a set of beliefs and practices. But after Muslims began to see their faith as an historical actor on the world stage, they needed to narrate Islam’s birth anew as well as to imagine its possible death. Faisal Devji argues that this change, sparked by the crisis of Muslim sovereignty in the age of European empire, provided a way of thinking about agency in a global context: an Islam liberated from the authority of kings and clerics had the potential to represent the human race itself as a newly empirical reality.

Ordinary Muslims, now recognized as the privileged representatives of Islam, were freed from traditional forms of Islamic authority. However, their conception of Islam as an impersonal actor in history meant that it could not be defined in either religious or political terms. Its existence as a civilizational and later ideological subject also deprived figures like God and the Prophet of their theological subjectivities while robbing the Muslim community of its political agency. Devji illuminates this history and explores its ramifications for the contemporary Muslim world.

Faisal Devji was born in 1964 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence and Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea.

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China, Chinese geschiedenis, Islam

Rian Thum – Islamic China

Rian Thum Islamic China review, recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van de Islam in China. Op 25 november 2025 verschijnt bij Harvard University Press het boek van Rian Thum, Senior Lecturer in East Asian History aan de University of Manchester, over de geschiedenis van de Islam in China. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Rian Thum Islamic China review en recensie

  • “Beautifully written and on the cutting edge of scholarship, Islamic China is the rare book that is perfect for both those new to the subject and those deeply immersed in it.” (Valerie Hansen, author of The Year 1000: When Globalization Began)

Rian Thum Islamic China

Islamic China

An Asian History

  • Auteur: Rian Thum
  • Soort boek: Chinese geschiedenis, Islamitische geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Harvard University Press
  • Verschijnt: 25 november 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de geschiedenis van de islam in China

A deeply learned reassessment of the history of Chinese Muslims, who since the fourteenth century have been subject to a constant program of minoritization.

For more than a millennium, Islam has been a Chinese religion, and native-born Chinese Muslims have played important roles in their homeland—as butchers, merchants, and farmers; diplomats, scholar-officials, and royal astronomers. Yet the Muslims of China have often been understood as inherently foreign, incompatible with Chinese culture. In this reappraisal, Rian Thum recaptures the ordinariness of Chinese Muslims. In doing so, he suggests that these communities, whose classification has so often been seen as problematic, can teach us about the ways social categories are made and maintained in the first place.

Firmly rooted in Chinese and long-neglected Perso-Arabic sources, Islamic China traces the interlinked histories of twenty Chinese Muslims, some famous and some obscure, spread across multiple ethnicities, sects, and centuries. Their stories—emphasizing the diversity of Chinese Muslim communities and their continuous exchanges with other groups both within and beyond China—cut through the flattening narratives that have obscured China’s Muslim heritage. Taken together, the experiences chronicled here offer a fresh view of Islamic China, stretching across Central, Southeast, and South Asia—and of China itself.

While focused on the Ming, Qing, and early Republican eras, Thum also harkens back to earlier centuries and traces the inheritances of this history to the present. Islamic China makes the compelling argument that the abstractions brought to bear on the past have practical implications in today’s People’s Republic of China, where the state enforces an oppressive regime of differentiation and control aimed broadly at Muslims and is routinely exposed for atrocities committed against particular subgroups.

Rian Thum is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Manchester. A contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Nation, he is the author of The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History, winner of the Fairbank Prize for East Asian History from the American Historical Association and the Hsu Prize for East Asian Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association.

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