The Biography of Muhammad: The Issue of the Sources (Islamic History and Civilization, 32)

Ex Library book and has stickers or markings as such. NO writing or markings other then from the library, All pages intact and clean, shows minor signs of wear from use. Great reading copy, Save money and recycle books! Shipped with care in a bubble mailer. --- Edited by Harald Motzki, this collection of ten essays comes from a colloquium held at the University of Nijmegen in October 1997. The contributors look at whether the early Arabic sources can be used to reconstruct the life of the Prophet. The editor's introduction sets out the problem: a biography written from the sources is attacked as uncritical, yet a strictly critical reading seems to leave too little to build one. The essays fall into two parts of five each. The first follows how the sira tradition developed, and the second tests how historically reliable the biographical material is. Some contributors draw on sources that have only recently become available or have been overlooked. The volume includes a bibliography, an index and illustrations.…