RT Book
T1 Muhammad and the empires of faith: the making of the prophet of Islam
A1 Anthony, Sean W.
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of Californiarnia Press
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1675845700
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BP75.3
SN 9780520340411
K1 Muḥammad : Prophet : -632 : Biography : History and criticism
K1 Muḥammad : Prophet : -632 : Sources