Muhammad and the Empires of Faith : The Making of the Prophet of Islam / Sean W. Anthony.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anthony, Sean W., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Muḥammad.

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

The Caliphs, 632–809

Introduction: The Making of the Historical Muhammad

1. The Earliest Evidence

2. Muhammad the Merchant

3. The Beginnings of the Corpus

4. The Letters of ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr

5. The Court Impulse

6. Prophecy and Empires of Faith

7. Muhammad and Cædmon

Epilogue: The Future of the Historical Muhammad

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780520974524

0520974522

OCLC:

1158127957