Danny and Derek welcome to the program Hamza Zafer, associate professor in the department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Washington, to discuss the world as it stood in the early days of Islam. The conversation focuses on the material conditions of the Arabian peninsula around the 7th century, touching on culture and economy of Mecca, the Red Sea Wars, early historiography of the Qur’an, pre-Islamic civic cults,
I've read some Fatema Mernissi ("The Veil and the Male Elite") and done some research on my own & the glimpses into early Islam and the political machinations behind the rise of Islam (the near rebellion over women's rights to war booty) and the Qur'an (burning of all its dialect variations, the lack of vowel markers in Arabic writing at that time, etc ).
I want to know more!
Is there a good book or group of books with all this early Islam juiciness?
I would listen to a whole separate pod with this guy. Great guest.
Cant wait for more of this! So good!
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I've read some Fatema Mernissi ("The Veil and the Male Elite") and done some research on my own & the glimpses into early Islam and the political machinations behind the rise of Islam (the near rebellion over women's rights to war booty) and the Qur'an (burning of all its dialect variations, the lack of vowel markers in Arabic writing at that time, etc ).
I want to know more!
Is there a good book or group of books with all this early Islam juiciness?
The Himyarites had a different language, it was Semitic but not Arabic. There were also Arabic speakers in Himyar, with a highly nonstandard dialect.
The nomads are sometimes called a’raab in the quran, but that is a different word than ‘Arab. [The Arabs in Antiquitiy, Retso]
This professor makes some weird errors.