Title: Muhammad and the Empires of Faith
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"--
Subjects: Muhammad, prophet, -632, Religions, Biography, History and criticism, Sources, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Biografie, Geschichtsschreibung