Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published; unpublished; and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history; arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 3; Islam; the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness; places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world. Volume 1; The QurʾÄnic Pagans and Related Matters; pursues the reconstruction of the religious environment in which Islam arose and develops an intertextual approach to studying the QurʾÄnic religious milieu. Volume 2; The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands; examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam; above all that of the Iranians. The QurʾÄnic Pagans and Related Matters The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Response to Shloma’s reviewBy EsotericaShloma ben Avram HaKohain’s review is grossly inaccurate...moreso given the fact that he has never been to Nigeria and therefore has never actually seen Orisa as practiced at the source directly in Yorubaland.In fact; the opposite seems true. Orisa as practiced today in Yorubaland of Nigeria and Benin Republic seems very close to how it was practiced during the era of the ethnographic writings and accounts of earlier europeans travelers used in creating the book. This comes from my own personal experience traveling to various countries such as Brazil; Cuba; and Nigeria where major orisa-worshipping communities exist.There was already aggressive evangelism at the time in West Africa. The difference is now there are many more christians and muslims in Yorubaland and less orisa worshippers - that is until christians and muslims have problems that they can’t find the solution to and seek the help of olorisas and babalawos.8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Terribly exciting read for the modern-day Orisha devoteeBy Shloma ben Avram HaKohainPeter McKenzie has sifted through the field notes; diaries; and other archival materials of tourists; adventurers; missionaries; military officials; and others to paint a picture of Orisha worship as it was practiced in Yoruba speaking territories in the mid-nineteenth century. It is very interesting that by comparison it seems that the rituals of veneration of the Orishas on THIS side of the Atlantic in modern times bear more in common with the Orisha worship of the past than the practices in modern day Nigeria. It is as if a snapshot of Orisha worship was taken by the people who would be torn from their homes and enslaved in the "new world" and that it has remained faithful to their socio-religious heritage and; in contrast; the forces of missionary Christianity and Islamic proselytization in Nigeria have birthed a very different form of veneration in the cradle of its own origin.
