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Zayd (Hardcover)
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Zayd (Hardcover)
Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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Although Muhammad had no natural sons who reached the age of
maturity, Islamic sources report that he adopted a man named Zayd
shortly before receiving his first revelation. This "son of
Muhammad" was the Prophet's heir for the next fifteen or twenty
years. He was the first adult male to become a Muslim and the only
Muslim apart from Muhammad whose name is mentioned in the Qur'an.
Eventually, Muhammad would repudiate Zayd as his son, abolish the
institution of adoption, and send Zayd to certain death on a
battlefield in southern Jordan. Curiously, Zayd has remained a
marginal figure in both Islamic and Western scholarship. David S.
Powers now attempts to restore Zayd to his rightful position at the
center of the narrative of the Prophet Muhammad and the beginnings
of Islam. To do so, he mines traces left behind in commentaries on
the Qur'an, in biographical dictionaries, and in historical
chronicles, reading these sources against analogues in the Hebrew
Bible. Powers demonstrates that in the accounts preserved in these
sources, Zayd's character is modeled on those of biblical figures
such as Isaac, Ishmael, Joseph, and Uriah the Hittite. This
modeling process was deployed by early Muslim storytellers to
address two key issues, Powers contends: the bitter conflict over
succession to Muhammad and the key theological doctrine of the
finality of prophecy. Both Zayd's death on a battlefield and
Muhammad's repudiation of his adopted son and heir were
after-the-fact constructions driven by political and theological
imperatives.
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