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: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Muḥammad 570-632
/ Biography
/ Historiography
/ History 600-800
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| IxTheo 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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 287 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 0520340418 |