Muhammad's military expeditions : a critical reading in original Muslim sources / Ayman S. Ibrahim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibrahim, Ayman S., 1973- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Military leadership.

Muḥammad.

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Campaigns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

The last ten years of Muhammad's life are vitally important not only to the study of Islam's prophet, but to the development of the religion itself. Prior to that last decade, Muhammad & his followers were tribally weak, & were persecuted by the Arabian elites of Mecca. Yet, according to Muslim accounts, by the end of his life Muhammad had become the sole leader of Western Arabia. This last decade was coloured by strategic military expeditions & tactical treaties, in which Muhammad overcame all his tribal enemies. Yet English speakers have long had limited access to thorough studies of these expeditions based on the original Arabic primary sources. In this book, Ayman S. Ibrahim seeks to fill this scholarly gap, presenting an exhaustive account of Muhammad's final decade, with specific emphasis on his military raids against various non-Muslim groups.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Glossary of Key-Terms

Muhammad's Major Maghāzī as reported by Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/923)

1. Muhammad's Expeditions: Introduction

2. Muhammad's Early Expeditions: The Strategic Maghazi before the Battle of Badr

3. Muhammad's Confrontations with Meccan Pagans: The Battles of Badr and Uhud

4. Muhammad's Triumph over the Meccans

5. Muhammad's Confrontations with the Jews

6. The King of Arabia: Raiding the Bedouins

7. Muhammad's Expeditions to Byzantine Frontiers

Concluding Remarks: Which Muhammad? Whose Maghazi?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-776919-5

0-19-776918-7

0-19-776920-9

OCLC:

1422807094