L’auteur

Suliman Bashear était un historien arabe, professeur à l’Université de Naplouse et à l’Université hébraïque de Jérusalem. Il fut remarqué pour ses travaux sur la genèse de l’Islam.

Presentation

This collection includes 15 critical and incisive studies by Bashear on various issues in the early Islamic tradition. One of the main themes running throughout these works is the gradual development of Islamic ritual and religious belief from within the hsitorical context of Judaism and Christianity into a spiritual system seemingly rooted solely in the Hijâz. Bashear’s studies consider not only the development of religious customs and beliefs, but also seek to explain how later generations recast the past in order to meet the needs of their own era.