Muhammad : forty introductions / Michael Muhammad Knight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knight, Michael Muhammad, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632.

Hadith--Texts.

Hadith.

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Hadith.

Muḥammad.

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Texts.

Physical Description:

viii, 307 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Muhammad : 40 introductions

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Soft Skull, [2019]

Summary:

"[This book] offers a distinct and nuanced take on the life and teachings of the prophet Muhammad, using a traditional genre of Islamic literature called the forty hadiths collection. Hadiths are the reported sayings and actions of Muhammad that have been collected by the tens of thousands throughout Islamic history. There is a tradition in which Muslim scholars take from this vast textual ocean to compile their own smaller collections of forty hadiths, an act of curation that allows them to present their particular understanding of Muhammad's legacy and the essential points of Islam. Here, Michael Muhammad Knight offers forty narrations that provide windows into the diverse ways in which Muslims envision Muhammad. He also examines his own relationship to Muslim traditions while exploring such topics as law, mysticism, sectarianism, gender, and sexuality."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Introducing the introductions

2. Punk rock and Bedouin piss

3. The Prophet in his world

4. The Hadith of Gabriel

5. The end of prophethood

6. Who created God?

7. Muhammad the "Pure Greek"

8. Portrait of the Prophet as a young man

9. Muhammad the orphan

10. The mountain of light

11. The ascension

12. "His character was the Qur'an"

13. The people of wudu'

14. The seven oft-repeated

15. The Prophet and suicide

16. Hadiths of intention

17. The greater jihad

18. Death of the Prophet

19. Muhammad as light

20. The city and the gate

21. The people of the house

22. The lady of light

23. Muhammad the grandfather

24. Like the stars

25. Mother of the believers

26. Prophetic sexuality

27. The 'A'isha question

28. Muhammad the lawgiver

29. Deleuzian fingernails

30. Muhammad and the animal

31. The bag of meat

32. Muhammad the shaman

33. Dreaming Muhammad

34. Knowledge in China

35. Hadiths for losers

36. Queering Muhammad

37. Knowledge of self

38. Hair and skin

39. The mercy of difference

40. Thank allah for Amina Wadud

Acknowledgments

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781593761479

1593761473

OCLC:

1050453798

Publisher Number:

99979384795