Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa Literature as Part of the Medieval Scholarly Discourse on Prophecy

Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī (d. 430/1038) and Abū Bakr Aḥmad al-Bayhaqī (d. 458/1066) are mostly considered early representatives of Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa literature. As a consequence the genre itself has often been viewed as a subgenre of sīra literature, which bears stylistic, structural and methodologica...

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Main Author: Koertner, Mareike (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2018
In: Der Islam
Year: 2018, Volume: 95, Issue: 1, Pages: 91-109
Further subjects:B Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa ḥadīth sīra prophecy qiṣāṣ
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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