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Hurgronje, Christiaan Snouck
The Mecca Festival
Mitwirkende: Adapted by Behn, Wolfgang H.; Translated by Behn, Wolfgang H.;
Umfang/Format: VIII, 132 pages
Sprache: English
Ausstattung: Book (Hardback)
Abmessungen: 16.00 × 24.00 cm
Gewicht: 440g
Edition: 1. Auflage
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.01.2012
Preise: 48,00 Eur[D] / 49,40 Eur[A]
ISBN: 978-3-447-06701-0
48,00 Eur

An enormous advance in the study of Islam is the study of the Dutch scholar and Privy Councillor of the Netherlands, Christiaan Snouk Hurgronje, distinguished by a profound acquaintance with the Arabic sources, a sense of historicity, penetrating criticism, and persistent logical line of argument. He was a sometime student of Theodor Nöldeke at the Reichsuniversität Straßburg. In his Leiden doctoral study in the Mecca pilgrimage he convincingly demonstrates that all Koranic passages referring to Islam as the “religion of Abraham” make sense only in the context of Muhammad's Medinan period. The Prophet there experienced the disappointment that the People of the Book, whose religion he had considered to be his very own, refused to recognize him. He then set out to develop a religious alternative to the pagan belief and the pilgrimage that did not in principle contest his early revelations but at the same time could also not as easily be challenged by the People of the Book as did his view of Moses and Jesus.
Since the first appearance of the thesis the work had been a book of seven seals. The long-winded Dutch text and the numerous asides make high demands on the readers’ patience and concentration. Wolfgang Behn now provides an English translation in a language common to Orientals and Occidentals alike that helps to adequately appreciate The Mecca festival.

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