Studies on the Life of Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam

ISBN-13: 9781032449821 / Twarda / 2023 / 254 str.

Michael Lecker

Opis

This volume includes twenty articles published between 1994 and 2020 on the subject of Muhammad and the history of early Islam, covered in five sections: Arabia on the Eve of Islam, Muḥammad at Medina, Muḥammad and the Jews, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq and the sīra and Studies on Early Islamic Literature.

Spis treści

1 Pre-Islamic Arabia / 2 The Monotheistic Cousins of Muḥammad’s Wife Khadīja / 3 Were the Ghassānids and the Byzantines behind Muḥammad’s hijra? / 4 Genealogy and Politics: Muḥammad’s Family Links with the Khazraj / 5 The Emigration of ʿUtba ibn Abī Waqqāṣ6 Did the Quraysh Conclude a Treaty with the Anṣār Prior to the hijra? / 7 Abū Mālik ʿAbdallāh b. Sām of Kinda, a Jewish Convert to Islam / 8 Were the Jewish Tribes in Arabia Clients of Arab Tribes? / 9 Did Muḥammad Conclude Treaties with the Jewish Tribes Naḍīr, Qurayẓa and Qaynuqāʿ? / 10 The Assassination of the Jewish Merchant Ibn Sunayna according to an Authentic Family Account / 11 Were there Female Relatives of the Prophet Muḥammad among the Besieged Qurayẓa? / 12 Wāqidī (d. 822) vs. Zuhrī (d. 742): The Fate of the Jewish Banū Abī l-Ḥuqayq / 13 Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ṣāḥib al-sīra/ṣāḥib al-maghāzī / 14 Muḥammad b. Isḥāq ṣāḥib al-maghāzī: Was his Grandfather Jewish? / 15 When did Ibn Isḥāq compose his maghāzī ? / 16 Notes about Censorship and Self-Censorship in the Biography of the Prophet Muḥammad / 17 The Jewish Reaction to the Islamic Conquests / 18 Wa-bi-Rādhān mā bi-Rādhān...: The landed Property of ʿAbdallāh ibn Masʿūd / 19 On the Burial of Martyrs in Islam / 20 The Futūḥ al-Shām of ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Rabīʿa al-Qudāmī

O autorze

Michael Lecker is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on pre- and early Islamic history, the biography of the Prophet Muḥammad and the Jews of the Arabian Peninsula.