TY - BOOK ID - 81167069 TI - Muhammad and the Empires of Faith : The Making of the Prophet of Islam PY - 2020 SN - 9780520340411 0520340418 9780520974524 0520974522 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Muhammad, KW - Biography KW - History and criticism. KW - 297.167 KW - 297.167 Islam: stichter: Mohammed KW - Islam: stichter: Mohammed KW - Muḥammad, KW - Mahomed, KW - Maḥmūd, KW - Mahomet, KW - Mohammed, KW - Magomet, KW - Mu-han-mo-te, KW - Nabi Muhammad, KW - Mukhammed, KW - Maometto, KW - Mahometto, KW - Mohammad, KW - Mahoma, KW - Muḥamad, KW - מוחמד KW - מוחמד, KW - ، محمد KW - النبي محمد KW - محمد KW - محمد الرسول KW - محمد النبي KW - محمد، نبي KW - محمد، پيامبر KW - محمد، KW - محمدو KW - محمد, KW - محمد. KW - ممحمد، KW - محمد الرسول, KW - محمد النبي, KW - HISTORY / Ancient / General. KW - arabic. KW - biography. KW - caliph. KW - cloister. KW - commerce. KW - doctrina iacobi. KW - early islam. KW - faith. KW - hadith. KW - history. KW - islam. KW - islamic history. KW - keys to paradise. KW - late antiquity. KW - merchant. KW - monk. KW - muhammad. KW - muslim. KW - nonfiction. KW - preaching. KW - prophet. KW - religion. KW - religious discourse. KW - religious history. KW - religious leaders. KW - scared texts. KW - spirituality. KW - trader. KW - umayyads. KW - vision. KW - Muhammad, - Prophet, - -632 - Biography - History and criticism. KW - Muhammad, - Prophet, - -632 - Sources. KW - Muhammad, - Prophet, - -632 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:81167069 AB - "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"-- ER -