2. Sept. 7.  Early Islamic  civilization
Reading: Hodgson, 1:101-230; Following Muhammad, chapter 3

Book 1.  The Islamic Infusion: Genesis of a New Social Order
1.  The World before Islam
105.  The culture of agrarian-based society
109. cosmopolitan and mercantile tendencies in early agrarianate society
111.  The fluorescences of the Axial Age and the articulation of cultural regions
117.  Personal conscience and the new society
120.  the position of the Nile-to-Oxus region in the Oikoumene
125. the confessional religious allegiances
128. the role of populism can be Irano-Semitic monotheisms
134. the populistic temper
137.  The confessional empires
142.  Populism in the Sasanian empire
2.  Muhammad's challenge, 570-624
147.  Bedouin-based culture in Muhammad's time
151.  The Arabs in international politics
154.  The Meccan system
158.  Muhammad becomes a prophet
162.  Monotheism and personal moral responsibility
167.  Muhammad founds a religious community
172.  The Ummah achieves autonomy
176.  Muhammad establishes a new polity 
180.  beginnings of a new society and culture
183.  the Qur'an and the community experience
3. the early Muslim state, 625-692
187.  Muhammad builds an Arab commonwealth between the Byzantine and Sasanian empires
193.  Mecca is taken
195.  The genesis of a new regional culture
197.  The establishment of the caliphal state
200.  The conquest of the Sasanian empire
206. `Umar's organization of conquest
212.  The first fitnah wars
       chart page 215
217.  The reign of Mu`awiyah and the second fitnah
223.  The Marwani state


vocabulary
Shi`i, Shi`ah (page 222, note 8)
misr or garrison town (page 208)
caliph
Muhajir emigrants and Ansar helpers (174)
Ummah (173)


3.      The Sacred Sources of Islam

The Seal of the Prophets

The Word of God