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"Early Islamic community" as a book category covers the formative centuries of Islam (roughly the 7th–9th centuries and the immediate aftermath) and centers on the social, political, religious and cultural life of the emerging Muslim ummah. Works in this category treat the Prophet Muhammad and his companions, the Rashidun and early Umayyad/Abbasid polities, the origins of Islamic institutions (caliphate, mosque, law, hadith collection), and the birth of major sectarian identities (Sunni, Shiʿa, Kharijite), while also tracing everyday life, conversion, trade, art and material culture across the Arabian Peninsula, Levant, Iraq, Persia, Egypt, North Africa and al-Andalus. It includes biographies (sira), chronicles, legal and theological texts, hadith compilations, archaeological and epigraphic studies, translations and critical editions, and interdisciplinary histories that use literary, legal, sociological and archaeological methods to explain how communities, norms and governance were established in the early Islamic world.

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