Studies on the Life of Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam

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, Muhammad at Medina, Muhammad and the Jews, Muhammad ibn Ishaq and the sira and Studies on Early Islamic Literature.

This volume includes 20 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, Muhammad at Medina, Muhammad and the Jews, Muhammad ibn Ishaq and the sira and studies on early Islamic literature.

The book focuses on a variety of historical questions, from the presumed Ghassanid/Byzantine involvement in the hijra to Muhammad's treaties with the main Jewish tribes of Yathrib/Medina. Predilection for detail, especially in the realms of genealogy and geography, is a salient characteristic of Lecker's research, which in recent years has been increasingly based on digitized text repositories. Many of the articles deal with the social and economic environment of early Islam, which is vital for the study of Muhammad's biography. They are conceived of as building blocks in a future critical biography of the Arabian prophet.

Studies on the Life of Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam will appeal to those interested in the history of pre- and early Islam, with an emphasis on Muhammad's life and his relations with the Jews of Arabia.

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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 Müammad and the Jews of the Arabian Peninsula.

Inhalt

1 Pre-Islamic Arabia / 2 The Monotheistic Cousins of Mu ammad's Wife Khad ja / 3 Were the Ghass nids and the Byzantines behind Mu ammad's hijra? / 4 Genealogy and Politics: Mu ammad's Family Links with the Khazraj / 5 The Emigration of Utba ibn Ab Waqq 6 Did the Quraysh Conclude a Treaty with the An r Prior to the hijra? / 7 Ab M lik Abdall h b. S m of Kinda, a Jewish Convert to Islam / 8 Were the Jewish Tribes in Arabia Clients of Arab Tribes? / 9 Did Mu ammad Conclude Treaties with the Jewish Tribes Nä r, Quray a and Qaynuq ? / 10 The Assassination of the Jewish Merchant Ibn Sunayna according to an Authentic Family Account / 11 Were there Female Relatives of the Prophet Mu ammad among the Besieged Quray a? / 12 W qid (d. 822) vs. Zuhr (d. 742): The Fate of the Jewish Ban Ab l- uqayq / 13 Mu ammad ibn Is q ib al-s ra/ ib al-magh z / 14 Mu ammad b. Is q ib al-magh z : Was his Grandfather Jewish? / 15 When did Ibn Is q compose his magh z ? / 16 Notes about Censorship and Self-Censorship in the Biography of the Prophet Mu ammad / 17 The Jewish Reaction to the Islamic Conquests / 18 Wa-bi-R dh n m bi-R dh n...: The landed Property of Abdall h ibn Mas d / 19 On the Burial of Martyrs in Islam / 20 The Fut al-Sh m of Abdall h b. Mu ammad b. Rab a al-Qud m