Ecumenical Community: Language and Politics of the Ummah in the Qurʾan

by Hamza M. Zafer

In Ecumenical Community, Hamza M. Zafer explores the language and politics of community-formation in the Qurʾan. Zafer proposes that ecumenism, or the inclusivity of social difference, was a key alliance-building strategy in the western Arabian proto-Muslim communitarian movement (1st/7th century). The Proto-Muslims imagined that their pietistic community--the ummah--transcended but did not efface prior social differences based...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004442987
• ISBN13: 9789004442986
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.4"