The earliest biographies of the prophet and their authors / Josef Horovitz ; edited by Lawrence I. Conrad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horovitz, Josef, 1874-1931, author.

Contributor:

Conrad, Lawrence I., 1949- editor.

Series:

Studies in late antiquity and early Islam ; 11.

Studies in late antiquity and early Islam ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Muḥammad.

Biographers--History and criticism.

Biographers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxviii, 158 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Gerlach Press, 2021.

Summary:

Josef Horovitz (1874-1931) wrote this classic monograph a century ago in two parts in German. The editor added footnotes, corrections and the preface, and it is now a book in its own right.<br><br>The translation was prepared by Marmaduke Pickthall. Lawrence I. Conrad, who re-edited the articles also presents a slightly corrected textual version, expanding and updating the notes and bibliography and adding a new introduction dealing with Horovitz's and other orientalists' work on early Islam in the early twentieth century.<br><br>Horovitz deals with thirteen early scholars who transmitted traditions or compiled sira or maghazi works, such as Urwa b. al-Zubayr, Ibn Ishaq and al-Waqidi.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

Preface

Editor's Introduction

Introduction

1. Maghāzī Authorities among the Tābi'ūn

2. The Early Medinans

3. The Students of al-Zuhrī

4. Maghāzī under the Early 'Abbāsids

Bibliography and Abbreviations

General Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Aug 2025).

First published in 2002 by Darwin Press.

ISBN:

3-95994-107-2

OCLC:

1229929317