Muhammad and the empires of faith: the making of the prophet of Islam

"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...

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Main Author: Anthony, Sean W. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oakland, California University of Californiarnia Press [2020]
In:Year: 2020
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Muḥammad 570-632 / Biography / Historiography / History 600-800
RelBib Classification:BJ Islam
Further subjects:B Muḥammad Prophet (-632) Biography History and criticism
B Muḥammad Prophet (-632) Sources
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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"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0520340418