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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| Tipo de documento: | Print Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Oakland, California
University of Californiarnia Press
[2020]
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| En: | Año: 2020 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Muḥammad 570-632
/ Biografía
/ Historiografía
/ Historia 600-800
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | BJ Islam |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Muḥammad Profeta (-632)
Biography
History and criticism
B Muḥammad Profeta (-632) Sources |
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| Sumario: | "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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| Notas: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0520340418 |