| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : the making of the historical Muḥammad -- The earliest evidence -- Muḥammad the merchant -- The beginnings of the corpus -- The letters of 'Urwah ibn al-Zubayr -- The court impulse -- Prophecy and empires of faith -- Muḥammad and Cædmon -- Epilogue : The future of the historical Muḥammad |
| Summary |
"This work offers a fresh assessment of the sources for the prophet Muhammad's life, integrating the earliest non-Muslim and documentary sources with the earliest prophetic biographies written in Arabic during the eighth-ninth centuries C.E. By placing these sources within the intellectual and cultural world of Late Antiquity, the author carves out a methodological approach to studying the historical Muhammad that, though reliant on the methods of critical historical scholarship, strikes a balance between revisionist historical skepticism and naïve historical realism"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Sources
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Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 |
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Biography
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019035331 |
| ISBN |
0520974522 |
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9780520974524 |
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