LEADER 02882nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910818044303321 005 20240516193113.0 010 $a1-136-95974-2 010 $a1-283-04464-1 010 $a9786613044648 010 $a0-203-85006-8 035 $a(CKB)2560000000058836 035 $a(EBL)957321 035 $a(OCoLC)798532976 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000467277 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11324830 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467277 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10489523 035 $a(PQKB)11030722 035 $a(OCoLC)709898346 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC957321 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL957321 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10446820 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL304464 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000058836 100 $a20091130d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe biography of Muhammed $enature and authenticity /$fGregor Schoeler ; translated by Uwe Vagelpohl ; edited by James E. Montgomery 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York, NY $cRoutledge$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge studies in classical islam ;$v1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-78886-4 311 $a0-415-56717-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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 330 $aThis 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 606 $aProphets$vBiography 615 0$aProphets 676 $a297.6/3 700 $aSchoeler$b Gregor$0661044 701 $aMontgomery$b James E$0661477 701 $aVagelpohl$b Uwe$0803366 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818044303321 996 $aThe biography of Muhammed$93940722 997 $aUNINA