Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters

Patricia Crone (1945-2015), Ph.D. (1974), School of Oriental and African Studies, was Professor Emerita at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her numerous publications include Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam (1987); Pre-Industrial Societies (1989); Medieval Islamic Political Thought (2004); and The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran (2012). Hanna Siurua (BA, School of Oriental and African Studies; MA, University of Sussex) is a professional editor based in Chicago. She specialises in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies and has edited numerous books and articles in these as well as other fields.

• Editor’s prefaceAuthor’s preface1. How did the Qurʾānic pagans make a living?2. Quraysh and the Roman army: Making sense of the Meccan leather trade3. The religion of the Qurʾānic pagans: God and the lesser deities4. Angels versus humans as messengers of God: The view of the Qurʾānic pagans5. The Qurʾānic mushrikūn and the resurrection (Part I) 6. The Qurʾānic mushrikūn and the resurrection (Part II)7. The Book of Watchers in the Qurʾān8. War9. Jewish Christianity and the Qurʾān (Part I)10. Jewish Christianity and the Qurʾān (Part II)11. Pagan Arabs as God-fearers12. Problems in sura 5313. No compulsion in religion: Q. 2:256 in medieval and modern interpretation14. Islam and religious freedom15. Tribes without saintsList of Patricia Crone’s publicationsIndex to volume 1

"..once again she has forced scholars to engage her arguments, made a strong case for skepticism of the traditional accounts, and set the direction of a debate for years to come."Herbert Berg in The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 34:2