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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818044303321

Autore

Schoeler Gregor

Titolo

The biography of Muhammed : nature and authenticity / / Gregor Schoeler ; translated by Uwe Vagelpohl ; edited by James E. Montgomery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Routledge, 2011

ISBN

1-136-95974-2

1-283-04464-1

9786613044648

0-203-85006-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in classical islam ; ; 1

Altri autori (Persone)

MontgomeryJames E

VagelpohlUwe

Disciplina

297.6/3

Soggetti

Prophets

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Foreword; Truth and historical tradition: Some introductory quotations; Introduction; 1 The main Medinese transmitters: Learning and teaching - the use of writing; 2 The text in the transmission process: Muhammad's first revelation (the iqra' narration); 3 The issue of authenticity: The tradition of the slander A' isah (hadit al-ifk); Afterword 2009; Appendix 1: The corpus; Appendix 2: List of sigla; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book considers the Arabic biographies of Prophet Muhammad, the earliest of which dates from two centuries after his life. These biographies, prized by Muslims, have been approached in the Western study of Islam from a range of positions. Some scholars reject them entirely, seeing in them products of the Muslim community's idealisation of its history, while others accept them at face value, reasoning that, if not exact versions of events, the events could not have differed too much from their descriptions. The author revisits the debate and reconsiders several key incident