The Historical Muhammad

ISBN: 978-0-7456-3998-7

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May 2007, Polity

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Preface

Introduction and Overview of the Life of Muhammad
Donner’s Reply to the Skeptics
Enter Muhammad: An Overview
The Battle of the Trench
Chapter One Ibn Khaldun’s Social and Economic Theory
Bedouins and Sedentary Peoples
Asabiyah
Chapter Two Pre-Islamic Arabia
The Hijaz on the Eve of the Rise of Islam
Pre-Islamic Religion
Chapter Three The Role of Abraham, Hagar and Ishmael
Who was the Sacrificial Son?
The Islamic Theory that Abraham, Ishmael and Hagar Traveled to the Valley of Mecca
Abraham, Ishmael and the Kaaba
William Muir on the Abrahamic Question
Muir on the Founding of Mecca and the Abrahamic Legend
Chapter Four Recent and Current Scholarship
The Religion of Mecca
The Kaaba and Its Devotees
Hanifiya and the Religion of Abraham
G.E. von Grunebaum, “The Nature of Arab Unity Before Islam”
M.J.Kister, “Al-Hira: Some Notes on Its Relations with Arabia”
Joseph Henninger, “Pre-Islamic Bedouin Religion”
Moshe Gil, “Jews of Yathrib”
Fazlur Rahman, “Pre-Foundations of the Muslim Community in Mecca”
Uri Rubin, “Hanifiyya and Ka ‘ba: An Inquiry into the Arabian Background of Din Ibrahim”
More on Pre-Islamic Religion in the Arabian Peninsula
Hamilton A.R. Gibb, “Pre-Islamic Monotheism in Arabia”
W. Montgomery Watt, “Belief in a ‘High God’ in Pre-Islamic Mecca”
Uri Rubin, “The Kaaba: Aspects of Its Ritual Functions and Position in Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Times”
Chapter Five Possible Influences on Muhammad’s Inspiration
Jewish Historians on the Jews of Arabia
Baron on Pre-Islamic, Arab-Jewish Relations in Arabia
Chapter Six The Jews of Arabia: A Recent Re-Examination
Chapter Seven Richard Bell’s Origin of Islam in its Christian Environment
Chapter Eight W. Montgomery Watt’s Muhammad at Mecca
The Daughters of Allah or the So-called Satanic Verses
More on the “Daughters of Allah” Affair
A Sociological Argument
W. Montgomery Watt’s Muhammad at Medina
Chapter Nine Muhammad at Medina: William Muir’s Analysis
Muhammad and the Jewish Tribes of Medina
The Battle of Badr
Current Research on the Massacre of the B. Qurayza
The Conquest of Khaybar
Chapter Ten Muhammad and the Jews
Muhammad and the Jews: G.D. Newby’s Re-Examination of the Evidence
Chapter Eleven Concluding Sociological Reflections
Abu Bakr and the Ridda
Notes
Bibliography
Index