The quest for the historical Muhammad
By: edited and translated by Ibn Warraq
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9781573927871
Subjects: Controversial literature; Ouvrages de controverse; Hadith; Beeldvorming; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Studies on Muhammad and the rise of Islam : a critical survey  -- Ibn Warraq; title: Origins of Islam : a critical look at the sources  -- Ibn Rawandi; title: Muhammad and the origins of Islam  -- Ernest Renan; title: Koran and tradition : how the life of Muhammad was composed  -- Henri Lammens; title: The age of Muhammad and the chronology of the Sira  -- Henri Lammens; title: Fatima and the daughters of Muhammad  -- Henri Lammens; title: Matters of principle concerning Lammens' Sira studies  -- C.H. Becker; title: The quest of the historical Muhammad  -- Arthur Jeffrey; title: A revaluation of Islamic traditions  -- Joseph Schacht; title: Abraha and Muhammad : some observations apropos of chronology and literary topoi in the early Arabic historical tradition  -- Lawrence I. Conrad; title: The function of asbab al-nuzul in Koranic exegesis  -- Andrew Rippin; title: Methodological approaches to Islamic studies  -- J. Koren and Y.D. Nevo; title: The quest of the historical Muhammad  -- F.E. Peters; title: Recovering lost texts : some methodological issues  -- Lawrence I. Conrad; title: The implications of, and opposition to, the methods of John Wansbrough  -- Herbert Berg; title: John Wansbrough, Islam, and monotheism -- G.R. Hawting.