The Death of a Prophet : : The End of Muhammad's Life and the Beginnings of Islam / / Stephen J. Shoemaker.
The oldest Islamic biography of Muhammad, written in the mid-eighth century, relates that the prophet died at Medina in 632, while earlier and more numerous Jewish, Christian, Samaritan, and even Islamic sources indicate that Muhammad survived to lead the conquest of Palestine, beginning in 634-35....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. "A Prophet Has Appeared, Coming with the Saracens"
- Chapter 2. The End of Muhammad's Life in Early Islamic Memory
- Chapter 3. The Beginnings of Islam and the End of Days
- Chapter 4. From Believers to Muslims, from Jerusalem to the Ḥijāz
- Conclusion: Jesus and Muhammad, the Apostle and the Apostles
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments