{"product_id":"9780253214133-muhammad-and-the-golden-bough","title":"Muhammad and the Golden Bough","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReconstructing Arabian Myth\u003cbr\u003eDemonstrates the existence of a coherent pre-Islamic Arabian myth that was subsequently incorporated into Islamic poetic tradition. This book dissects the Arab-Islamic myth built around Muhammad's unearthing of a \"golden bough\" from the grave of the last survivor of an ancient Arab people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow in Paperback!\u003cbr\u003e Muhammad and the Golden Bough\u003cbr\u003e Reconstructing Arabic Myth\u003cbr\u003e Jaroslav Stetkevych\u003cbr\u003e Connects pre-Islamic Arabian myth to world mythic traditions.\u003cbr\u003e A Choice Outstanding Academic Book\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e Through 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.\u003cbr\u003e Jaroslav 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.\u003cbr\u003e Contents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Reclaiming Arabian Myth\u003cbr\u003e The Textual Puzzle\u003cbr\u003e The Thamudic Backdrop to the Puzzle\u003cbr\u003e The First Answer to the Puzzle: The Raid on Tabuk\u003cbr\u003e The Totem and the Taboo\u003cbr\u003e Poeticizing the Thamud\u003cbr\u003e Demythologizing the Thamud\u003cbr\u003e The Scream\u003cbr\u003e The Arabian Golden Bough and Kindred Branches: Frazer, Vergil, Homer, and Gilgamesh\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451372548470,"sku":"9780253214133","price":17.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35591460.jpg?v=1760462158","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780253214133-muhammad-and-the-golden-bough","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}