Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam

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--

• | Author: Dr. Sean W. Anthony
• | Publisher: University of California Press
• | Publication Date: April 21, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 302 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0520340418
• | ISBN-13: 9780520340411