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Patricia Crone*, Adam Silverstein
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
This article is a contribution to the question how far there was continuity between ancient Near Eastern and Islamic culture. It focuses on the practice of using lot-casting to allocate inheritance shares, conquered land, and official functions, and briefly surveys the history of this practice from ancient through Hellenistic to pre-Islamic times in order to examine its Islamic forms as reflected in historical and legal sources. It is argued that the evidence does suggest continuity between the ancient and the Islamic Near East, above all in the first century of the hijra, but also long thereafter, if only at a fairly low level of juristic interest. The article concludes with some general consideration of the problems involved in the study of the two disconnected periods of Near Eastern history.
Original language | American English |
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Pages (from-to) | 423-450 |
Number of pages | 28 |
Journal | Journal of Semitic Studies |
Volume | 55 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter