|
Showing 1 - 8 of
8 matches in All Departments
This book considers the Arabic biographies of Prophet Muhammad, the
earliest of which dates from two centuries after his life. These
biographies, prized by Muslims, have been approached in the Western
study of Islam from a range of positions. Some scholars reject them
entirely, seeing in them products of the Muslim community's
idealisation of its history, while others accept them at face
value, reasoning that, if not exact versions of events, the events
could not have differed too much from their descriptions. The
author revisits the debate and reconsiders several key incidents in
the life of the Prophet. By compiling an extensive corpus of
materials and comparing them closely, this book analyses the
transmission and the contents of the accounts. It shows that by
understanding clearly the interaction in early Islam between
written and oral modes of transmission, and by the judicious
sieving of the accounts, as well as the lines of transmission, we
can sometimes reach back to that generation of Muslims who though
not themselves witness to the events were younger contemporaries of
those who were. Establishing a solid basis for the informed study
of Muhammad's biography and adding to the ongoing debate, this book
will appeal to scholars of early Islam, history and theology.
This book considers the Arabic biographies of Prophet Muhammad, the
earliest of which dates from two centuries after his life. These
biographies, prized by Muslims, have been approached in the Western
study of Islam from a range of positions. Some scholars reject them
entirely, seeing in them products of the Muslim community's
idealisation of its history, while others accept them at face
value, reasoning that, if not exact versions of events, the events
could not have differed too much from their descriptions. The
author revisits the debate and reconsiders several key incidents in
the life of the Prophet. By compiling an extensive corpus of
materials and comparing them closely, this book analyses the
transmission and the contents of the accounts. It shows that by
understanding clearly the interaction in early Islam between
written and oral modes of transmission, and by the judicious
sieving of the accounts, as well as the lines of transmission, we
can sometimes reach back to that generation of Muslims who though
not themselves witness to the events were younger contemporaries of
those who were. Establishing a solid basis for the informed study
of Muhammad's biography and adding to the ongoing debate, this book
will appeal to scholars of early Islam, history and theology.
Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the
first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler
gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the
written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural
articulation among the Muslim societies of the first two centuries
of the Hijra.
Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for
the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor
Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of
how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received
cultural articulation among the Muslim societies of the first two
centuries of the Hijra.
|
You may like...
Crybaby
Tegan & Sara
CD
R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|