Background -- Biblicists and Arabs -- The Nature of the Literature -- The Syrian Prologue -- Abraham's Emigration -- The Tyrant -- The Birth of Ishmael -- Beersheba -- The Angels Visit -- The Meccan Sequence -- The Transfer to Mecca -- The Jurhum -- Abraham's Visits -- Building the Ka'ba -- The Pilgrimage -- The Sacrifice -- Prelude to Sacrifice -- The Sacrificial Act -- The Redemption -- Isaac or Ishmael? -- The Exegetes and Their Sources -- Traditionists Naming Isaac or Ishmael as the Intended Sacrificial Victim
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index
