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Muhammad and the empires of faith the making of the prophet of Islam Sean William Anthony

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0520974522
  • 9780520974524
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Muhammad and the empires of faith.DDC classification:
  • 297.6/3 B 23
LOC classification:
  • BP75.3 .A58 2020eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction : the making of the historical Muḥammad -- The earliest evidence -- Muḥammad the merchant -- The beginnings of the corpus -- The letters of 'Urwah ibn al-Zubayr -- The court impulse -- Prophecy and empires of faith -- Muḥammad and Cædmon -- Epilogue : The future of the historical Muḥammad
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"-- Provided by publisher
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)2358598

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : the making of the historical Muḥammad -- The earliest evidence -- Muḥammad the merchant -- The beginnings of the corpus -- The letters of 'Urwah ibn al-Zubayr -- The court impulse -- Prophecy and empires of faith -- Muḥammad and Cædmon -- Epilogue : The future of the historical Muḥammad

"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"-- Provided by publisher