{"product_id":"muhammad-and-the-golden-bough-reconstructing-arabian-myth-paperback-1","title":"Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Reconstructing Arabian Myth - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJaroslav Stetkevych\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow in Paperback!\u003cbr\u003eMuhammad and the Golden Bough\u003cbr\u003eReconstructing Arabic Myth\u003cbr\u003eJaroslav Stetkevych\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConnects pre-Islamic Arabian myth to world mythic traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Choice Outstanding Academic Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stetkevych succeeds brilliantly in reconstructing the myth of the destruction of the Thamud, an ancient people of north Arabia. . . . This book will add a new dimension to the study of Near Eastern and Mediterranean myth and legend.\" --Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stetkevych's critical and wide-ranging perspective reveals a wealth of insights. This book is must reading for everyone in the field of religion and one of the most important works in recent years.\" --Religious Studies Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The graceful writing, interdisciplinary scope, and hermeneutical depth should make it compelling reading for those interested in the mythos of Arabia before and at the birth of Islam and in comparable myths in neighboring civilizations.\" --MESA Bulletin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It opens up new dimensions of how to think about, how to study, how to see interrelationships in the ancient Arabian world and their connections with the Mediterranean world in general. . . . a stunning piece of work.\" --Chronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough its development of a methodology for analyzing the mythic and folkloric traditions of pre-Islamic Arabia and the process of their incorporation into Islamic myth and Qur'anic texts, Muhammad and the Golden Bough offers compelling insights for students of Islam, comparative religion, and cultural anthropology. By linking Arabic myth with a broad range of ancient and classical texts--including Gilgamesh, Homer, and the Hebrew Bible--the book makes a provocative contribution to biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies, classics, and comparative literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJaroslav Stetkevych is Professor Emeritus of Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago. He is author of The Modern Arabic Literary Language: Lexical and Stylistic Developments and The Zephyrs of Najd: The Poetics of Nostalgia in the Classical Arabic Nasib. His articles on classical and modern Arabic literature have appeared in Spanish, English, Arabic, and Ukrainian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Reclaiming Arabian Myth\u003cbr\u003eThe Textual Puzzle\u003cbr\u003eThe Thamudic Backdrop to the Puzzle\u003cbr\u003eThe First Answer to the Puzzle: The Raid on Tabuk\u003cbr\u003eThe Totem and the Taboo\u003cbr\u003ePoeticizing the Thamud\u003cbr\u003eDemythologizing the Thamud\u003cbr\u003eThe Scream\u003cbr\u003eThe Arabian Golden Bough and Kindred Branches: Frazer, Vergil, Homer, and Gilgamesh\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe richness of myth in Arab-Islamic culture has long been ignored or even denied. In Muhammad and the Golden Bough Jaroslav Stetkevych demonstrates the existence of a coherent pre-Islamic Arabian myth that was subsequently incorporated into Islamic poetic tradition and the Dur'an. The book dissects the intriguing Arab-Islamic myth built around Muhammad's unearthing of a \"\"golden bough\"\" from the grave of the last survivor of an ancient Arab people, the Thamud, who, according to the myth, were destroyed by a divine scourge for their iniquity. In the myth the episode of the slaying of the she-camel of the prophet Salih, which precipitates the downfall of the Thamud, is symbolically linked with Muhammad, the discoverer of the golden bough. Through its development of a methodology for analyzing the mythic and folkloric material of pre-Islamic Arabia and the process of its incorporation into Islamic myth and Qur'anic exegesis, Muhammad and the Golden Bough offers compelling insights for students of Islam, comparative religion, and anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJaroslav Stetkevych is Professor Emeritus of Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Modern Arabic Literary Language: Lexical and Stylistic Developments and The Zephyrs of Najd: The Poetics of Nostalgia in the Classical Arabic Nasîb. His articles on classical and modern Arabic literature have appeared in Spanish, English, Arabic, and Ukrainian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.44 x 5.45 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 22, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42563844669536,"sku":"9780253214133","price":50.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/cEU3aWFPc0ErOFVabVFxUm5CRGdZUT09.webp?v=1770418511","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/muhammad-and-the-golden-bough-reconstructing-arabian-myth-paperback-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}