Muhammad and the Empires of Faith
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Author | : Sean Anthony |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2020 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780520340411 |
ISBN-13 | : 0520340418 |
Rating | : 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Muhammad and the Empires of Faith by : Sean Anthony
Book excerpt: "This work offers a fresh assessment of the sources for the prophet Muhammad's life, integrating the earliest non-Muslim and documentary sources with the earliest prophetic biographies written in Arabic during the eighth-ninth centuries C.E. By placing these sources within the intellectual and cultural world of Late Antiquity, the author carves out a methodological approach to studying the historical Muhammad that, though reliant on the methods of critical historical scholarship, strikes a balance between revisionist historical skepticism and naïve historical realism"--