| Description |
1 online resource (unpaged) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Glossary of Key-Terms -- Muhammad's Major Maghāzī as reported by Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/923) -- 1. Muhammad's Expeditions: Introduction -- 2. Muhammad's Early Expeditions: The Strategic Maghazi before the Battle of Badr -- 3. Muhammad's Confrontations with Meccan Pagans: The Battles of Badr and Uhud -- 4. Muhammad's Triumph over the Meccans -- 5. Muhammad's Confrontations with the Jews -- 6. The King of Arabia: Raiding the Bedouins -- 7. Muhammad's Expeditions to Byzantine Frontiers -- Concluding Remarks: Which Muhammad? Whose Maghazi? |
| Summary |
"The Arabic Muslim literature on Muhammad's maghazi is bountiful. Since this book focuses on Muhammad's maghazi, a survey of this literature is important not only to establish the centrality of the topic in Islamic thought but also to relay the uniqueness and contribution of this book. To that end, in this chapter, I will first explore that which classical Muslim narrators wrote on Muhammad's maghazi and the ways they used the accounts to reflect Allah's support for Muhammad and the believers. In the second section, I will examine discussions by modern and contemporary Muslims, relaying how they interpret the accounts of the maghazi. In particular, I will discuss their articulation of the motivations and results of Muhammad's military campaigns. The first two sections of this chapter will thus establish the centrality of the maghazi, as a literary genre, as well as its importance among Muslims, past and present. In the third section, I take the discussion to non-Muslim scholarship. I explore briefly early views on Muhammad and his career by non-Muslims, before I focus on works and arguments of key Western scholars from the nineteenth century until our present day"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 25, 2024) |
| Subject |
Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Military leadership.
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Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Campaigns
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Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Religion & beliefs.
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Religion.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2024004678 |
| ISBN |
9780197769195 |
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0197769195 |
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9780197769201 |
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0197769209 |
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