Muhammad and the Empires of Faith
Subtitle: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780520340411
Subjects: Muhammad, prophet, -632
Description: "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"--