Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Reconstructing Arabian Myth Paperback - 2000
by Jaroslav Stetkevych
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The richness of myth in Arab-Islamic culture has long been ignored or even denied. In Muhammad and the Golden Bough Jaroslav Stetkevych demonstrates the existence of a coherent pre-Islamic Arabian myth that was subsequently incorporated into Islamic poetic tradition and the Dur'an. The book dissects the intriguing Arab-Islamic myth built around Muhammad's unearthing of a "golden bough" from the grave of the last survivor of an ancient Arab people, the Thamud, who, according to the myth, were destroyed by a divine scourge for their iniquity. In the myth the episode of the slaying of the she-camel of the prophet Salih, which precipitates the downfall of the Thamud, is symbolically linked with Muhammad, the discoverer of the golden bough. Through its development of a methodology for analyzing the mythic and folkloric material of pre-Islamic Arabia and the process of its incorporation into Islamic myth and Qur'anic exegesis, Muhammad and the Golden Bough offers compelling insights for students of Islam, comparative religion, and anthropology.
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- Title Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Reconstructing Arabian Myth
- Author Jaroslav Stetkevych
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 184
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Indiana University Press, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-06-22
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780253214133 / 0253214130
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 5.45 x 0.55 in (21.44 x 13.84 x 1.40 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Arab World
- Religious Orientation: Islamic
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96012390
- Dewey Decimal Code 299.27
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