Scholars conducting research in this field encounter great difficulties due to the lack of published material, even on basic historical issues. Furthermore, the division between the various disciplines often renders access to new material in an unfamiliar field exceptionally difficult. Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam (SLAEI) thus aims to address such difficulties by publishing monographs, text editions, and translations by scholars working in Byzantine, Arab-Islamic, and Eastern Church studies, and by literary scholars, historians, and archaeologists. The volumes in SLAEI include the papers of international workshops on specific themes, and the series as a whole seeks to promote an integrated and strongly interdisciplinary focus for research on the late antique and early medieval Near East. (Source : Darwin Press)

Book selection

– 3. The Early Arabic Historical tradition: A Source-Critical Study, by Albrecht Noth. Second edition, in collaboration with Lawrence I. Conrad, translated by Michael Bonner.1994.
– 4. Studies in Early Islamic History, by Martin Hinds. Edited by Jere L. Bacharach, Lawrence I. Conrad, and Patricia Crone. 1996.
– 5. The Eye of the Beholder: The Life of Muhammad as Viewed by the Early Muslims (A Textual Analysis), by Uri Rubin. 1995.
– 8. Arabs and Others in Early Islam, by Suliman Bashear. 1997.
– 9. History and Historiography in Early Islamic Times: Studies and Perspectives, edited by Lawrence I. Conrad. In press, 2003.
– 11. Earliest Biographies of the Prophet, by Josef Horovitz. 2002.
– 12. Muhammadanea Edessensis: The Rise of Islam in Eastern Historiography under the Early ‘Abbasids, by Lawrence I. Conrad. Forthcoming.
– 13. Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam, by Robert G. Hoyland. 1997
– 14. Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing, by Fred M. Donner. 1998.
– 15. Al-Tabari: A Medieval Muslim Historian and His Work, edited by Hugh Kennedy and Judy Ahola. In press, 2003.
– 16. The Qur’an: Context, Text, and Interpretation, by Andrew Rippin.
– 17. Between Bible and Qur’an: The Children of Israel and the Islamic Self-Image, by Uri Rubin. 1999.
– 18. Studies in the History and Culture of Early Islam, by Josef Horovitz.
Forthcoming.
– 19. Prophet, Caliph, and History, by Rudolph Selheim. Forthcoming.
– 20. Ibn ‘Asakir and Early Islamic History, edited by James E. Lindsay. 2001.
– 21. Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic, by David Cook. 2002.

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