Muhammad's Mission : : Religion, Politics, and Power at the Birth of Islam / / Tilman Nagel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• VerfasserIn: Nagel, Tilman,
• MitwirkendeR: Spoerl, Joseph,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2020]; Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 326 p.)

Combining vast erudition with a refusal to bow before the political pressures of the day, Muhammad’s Mission: Religion, Politics, and Power at the Birth of Islam by Professor Tilman Nagel, one of the world’s leading authorities on Islam, is an introduction to three inseparable topics: the life of Mu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Mecca
• Chapter 2: The “Year of the Elephant”
• Chapter 3: Purity
• Chapter 4: The “Lord of the Dog Star”
• Chapter 5: The “Satanic Verses”
• Chapter 6: Moses and Pharaoh
• Chapter 7: The Expulsion
• Chapter 8: The Pagan Prophet
• Chapter 9: War against Mecca
• Chapter 10: The Bid for Power
• Chapter 11: The Occupation of Mecca
• Chapter 12: Jihad
• Chapter 13: The Dying Prophet
• Chapter 14: The Return of Muhammad
• Chapter 15: The Roots of “Knowledge”
• Chapter 16: “Knowledge” without History
• Chapter 17: The Eternal Role Model
• Chapter 18: The Dogmatization of the Figure of the Prophet
• Chapter 19: The Birthday of the Prophet
• Chapter 20: The Guarantor of Salvation in This World
• Appendix 1: Muhammad and his Position in Ancient Arab Genealogy
• Appendix 2: The State of Scholarship regarding the Life of Muhammad
• Appendix 3: Understanding or Imitation? Basic Varieties of Muslim Recollection of Muhammad
• Clarification of a Few Concepts (A Brief Glossary)
• Annotations
• General Index
• Index of Koranic citations