Cook, Michael <br/><br/>
Studies in the origins of early Islamic culture and tradition / 
Michael Cook 
 - Aldershot ;  Burlington, VT :  Ashgate Variorum,  c2004. 
 - xii, (various pagings) ;  23 cm. 
 - Collected studies series; CS784. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>The origins of kalam -- Pharaonic history in medieval Egypt -- Magian cheese: an archaic problem in Islamic law -- Early Islamic dietary law -- 'Anan and Islam: the origins of Karaite scripturalism --  Weber and Islamic sects -- The Heraclian dynasty in Muslim eschatology -- Eschatology and the dating of traditions -- An early Islamic apocalyptic chronicle -- The opponents of the writing of tradition in early Islam -- Ibn Qutayba and the monkeys -- A Koranic codex inherited by Malik from his grandfather 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0860789160 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Islamic Civilization
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Islamic Empire--Intellectual Life
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>909.097671  / COO/S