Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Ground -- ONE. The Ideology of the Horizons -- Horizon, Vision, Settlement -- Halting and Discourse -- The Camel, the Path, and the Marketplace -- TWO. Socioeconomy and the Horizon of Thought -- Sedentarization -- Money, Trade, and Abstract Thought -- Mecca -- The Nomadic Flux -- Kinda -- THREE. Social Time, Death, and the Ideal -- Rendering the Experience -- Idealization and the Past -- Mortality and the Future -- Waiting -- FOUR. Pre-Islamic Ontotheology and the Method of Knowledge -- Paganism and the Idea of the Ritual -- Reformers, Hanifism, Pagan Monotheism -- Examples and Commentary -- FIVE. The Discourse and the Path -- Forms, Codes,Words -- Nature, Text, Ruins -- The Wandering Logic -- Sources of Structural Stability -- Part II: The Faith -- SIX. Prophetic Constitution -- The Land Dreams of a Prophet -- Constitution of Sagehood: Knowledge, Foreknowledge -- The Tear of the Poet and the Fear of the Prophet: Failures of Belonging -- SEVEN. The House of the Umma and the Spider Web of the Tribe -- The Tribe -- The Ruins of the Tribe -- Fitnah,Hijra,War -- The Satanic Verses and Their Background -- The Boundaries of the Umma -- Hudaybiyyah and the Paradigms of the Umma -- EIGHT. Austerity, Power, and Worldly Exchange -- Death, Subjectivity, and Identity -- Austerity, Justice, Perishing: Moses and 'Ubayd -- God's Contracts -- War and the Code of Justice -- Fate and the Legitimacy of Acquisition -- NINE. In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Origins, the System, and the Accident -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.