The biography of Muhammed : nature and authenticity / Gregor Schoeler ; translated by Uwe Vagelpohl ; edited by James E. Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schoeler, Gregor.

Contributor:

Montgomery, James E.

Vagelpohl, Uwe.

Series:

Routledge studies in classical islam ; 1

Standardized Title:

Charakter und Authentie der muslimischen Überlieferung über des Leben Mohammeds. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Biography--History and criticism.

Muḥammad.

Prophets--Biography.

Prophets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book considers the Arabic biographies of Prophet Muhammad, the earliest of which dates from two centuries after his life. These biographies, prized by Muslims, have been approached in the Western study of Islam from a range of positions. Some scholars reject them entirely, seeing in them products of the Muslim community's idealisation of its history, while others accept them at face value, reasoning that, if not exact versions of events, the events could not have differed too much from their descriptions. The author revisits the debate and reconsiders several key incident

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Foreword; Truth and historical tradition: Some introductory quotations; Introduction; 1 The main Medinese transmitters: Learning and teaching - the use of writing; 2 The text in the transmission process: Muhammad's first revelation (the iqra' narration); 3 The issue of authenticity: The tradition of the slander A' isah (hadit al-ifk); Afterword 2009; Appendix 1: The corpus; Appendix 2: List of sigla; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-95974-2

1-283-04464-1

9786613044648

0-203-85006-8

9780203850060

OCLC:

798532976