UID:
almafu_9960800402602883
Format:
1 online resource (304 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
0-520-97452-2
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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The Caliphs, 632–809 --
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Introduction: The Making of the Historical Muhammad --
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1. The Earliest Evidence --
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2. Muhammad the Merchant --
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3. The Beginnings of the Corpus --
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4. The Letters of ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr --
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5. The Court Impulse --
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6. Prophecy and Empires of Faith --
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7. Muhammad and Cædmon --
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Epilogue: The Future of the Historical Muhammad --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-34041-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520974524
