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Author Shoemaker, Stephen J., 1968-

Title The death of a prophet : the end of Muhammad's life and the beginnings of Islam / Stephen J. Shoemaker
Edition 1st ed
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (408 pages)
Series Divinations : rereading late ancient religion
Divinations.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "A Prophet Has Appeared, Coming with the Saracens" -- Chapter 2. The End of Muhammad's Life in Early Islamic Memory -- Chapter 3. The Beginnings of Islam and the End of Days -- Chapter 4. From Believers to Muslims, from Jerusalem to the Ḥijāz -- Conclusion: Jesus and Muhammad, the Apostle and the Apostles -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary In this study Stephen J. Shoemaker investigates contradictory traditions about the end of Muhammad's life in the Islamic and non-Islamic sources of the seventh and eighth centuries
Analysis Ancient Studies
History
Religion
Religious Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Muḥammad, Prophet, -632
SUBJECT Muḥammad, Prophet, -632
Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 fast
Muḥammad 570-632 gnd
Mohammed. idszbz
Subject Islam -- History.
Islam -- Historiography.
RELIGION -- Islam -- History.
Islam
Islam -- Historiography
Islam
Geschichtsschreibung
Islam.
Entstehung.
Geschichtsschreibung.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011016426
ISBN 9780812205138
0812205138