"The Book of Tribulations": The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition
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- ISBN 9781474444088
- Weight: 775g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Feb 2019
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The Book of Tribulations is the earliest complete Muslim apocalyptic text to survive, and as such has considerable value as a primary text. It is unique in its importance for Islamic history: focusing upon the central Syrian city of Hims, it gives us a picture of the personalities of the city, the tribal conflicts within, the tensions between the proto-Muslim community and the majority Christian population, and above all details about the wars with the Byzantines. Additionally, Nu`aym gives us a range of both the Umayyad and the Abbasid official propaganda, which was couched in apocalyptic and messianic terms.
David Cook is professor of religion at Rice University specializing in Islam. He did his undergraduate degrees at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2001. His areas of specialization include early Islamic history and development, as well as Muslim apocalyptic literature and movements (classical and contemporary). His first book, Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic, was published by Darwin Press in the series Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam. Two further books, Understanding Jihad (University of California Press) and Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature (Syracuse University Press) were published during 2005, and Martyrdom in Islam (Cambridge University Press 2007) as well as The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Heritage: An Annotated Translation of NuꜤaym b. Ḥammād al-Marwazī’s Kitāb al-fitan (The Book of Tribulations) (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).
