The Life of Muhammad / edited by Uri Rubin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubin, Uri, 1944-

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Formation of the classical Islamic world ; v. 4.

Formation of the classical Islamic world ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632.

Muḥammad.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xlvi, 410 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1998]

Contents:

1. "Maghazi" and "Sira" in Early Islamic Scholarship / Martin Hinds 1

2. Ibn Ishaq and al-Waqidi: the Dream of 'Atika and the Raid to Nakhla in Relation to the Charge of Plagiarism / J.M.B. Jones 11

3. Waqidi's Account on the Status of the Jews of Medina: a Study of a Combined Report / Michael Lecker 23

Events in the Life of Muhammad

4. Abraha and Muhammad: Some Observations Apropos of Chronology and Literary Topoi in the Early Arabic Historical Tradition / Lawrence I. Conrad 41

5. The Sons of Khadija / M.J. Kister 57

6. The First Muslims in Mecca: a Social Basis for a New Religion? / Miklos Muranyi 95

7. The Meetings at al-'Akaba / Gertrud Melamede 105

8. The Sunnah Jami'ah, Pacts with the Yathrib Jews, and the Tahrim of Yathrib: Analysis and Translation of the Documents Comprised in the So-Called "Constitution of Medina" / R.B. Serjeant 151

9. The Chronology of the Maghazi

a Textual Survey / J.M.B. Jones 193

10. Al-Hudaybiya: an Alternative Version / Furrukh B. Ali 229

11. Al-Hudaybiyya and the Conquest of Mecca: a Reconsideration of the Tradition about the Muslim Takeover of the Sanctuary / G.R. Hawting 245

The Idealised Muhammad

12. The Growth of the Mohammed Legend / Josef Horovitz 269

13. Jerusalem in the Story of Muhammad's Night Journey and Ascension / Heribert Busse 279

14. Muhammad and the Prophets / A.J. Wensinck 319

Muhammad and Christian Apologies

15. The Prophet Muhammad: His Scripture and his Message according to the Christian Apologies in Arabic and Syriac from the First Abbasid Century / Sidney H. Griffith 345.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxvii-xlvi) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

OCLC:

38542554