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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
[2020]
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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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0520974522 9780520974524 |