TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anthony,Sean W.
TI  - Muhammad and the empires of faith: the making of the prophet of Islam
SN  - 0520974522
AV  - BP75.3 .A58 2020eb
U1  - 297.6/3B 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Muḥammad,
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Sources
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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