Between History and Ancestral Lore: A Literary Approach to the Sīra's Narratives of Political Assassinations

The assassinations of the Prophet Muḥammad's antagonists were, according to the sīra, the harsh measures he took toward the consolidation of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula. These incidents’ narratives are often labeled in modern scholarship as "completely free of any tendentiousness."...

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Main Author: Roohi, Ehsan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2021
In: Der Islam
Year: 2021, Volume: 98, Issue: 2, Pages: 425-472
Further subjects:B political assassinations
B Muslim–Jewish relations
B Islamic Origins
B literary topoi
B historical Muḥammad
B Sīra
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