The Historical Muhammad (Hardcover)

Preface

• Introduction and Overview of the Life of Muhammad
  
• Donner’s Reply to the Skeptics
  
• Enter Muhammad: An Overview
  
• The Battle of the Trench
  
• Chapter One Ibn Khaldun’s Social and Economic Theory
  
• Bedouins and Sedentary Peoples
  
• Asabiyah
  
• Chapter Two Pre-Islamic Arabia
  
• The Hijaz on the Eve of the Rise of Islam
  
• Pre-Islamic Religion
  
• Chapter Three The Role of Abraham, Hagar and Ishmael
  
• Who was the Sacrificial Son?
  
• The Islamic Theory that Abraham, Ishmael and Hagar Traveled to the Valley of Mecca
  
• Abraham, Ishmael and the Kaaba
  
• William Muir on the Abrahamic Question
  
• Muir on the Founding of Mecca and the Abrahamic Legend
  
• Chapter Four Recent and Current Scholarship
  
• The Religion of Mecca
  
• The Kaaba and Its Devotees
  
• Hanifiya and the Religion of Abraham
  
• G.E. von Grunebaum, “The Nature of Arab Unity Before Islam”
  
• M.J.Kister, “Al-Hira: Some Notes on Its Relations with Arabia”
  
• Joseph Henninger, “Pre-Islamic Bedouin Religion”
  
• Moshe Gil, “Jews of Yathrib”
  
• Fazlur Rahman, “Pre-Foundations of the Muslim Community in Mecca”
  
• Uri Rubin, “Hanifiyya and Ka ‘ba: An Inquiry into the Arabian Background of Din Ibrahim”
  
• More on Pre-Islamic Religion in the Arabian Peninsula
  
• Hamilton A.R. Gibb, “Pre-Islamic Monotheism in Arabia”
  
• W. Montgomery Watt, “Belief in a ‘High God’ in Pre-Islamic Mecca”
  
• Uri Rubin, “The Kaaba: Aspects of Its Ritual Functions and Position in Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Times”
  
• Chapter Five Possible Influences on Muhammad’s Inspiration
  
• Jewish Historians on the Jews of Arabia
  
• Baron on Pre-Islamic, Arab-Jewish Relations in Arabia
  
• Chapter Six The Jews of Arabia: A Recent Re-Examination
  
• Chapter Seven Richard Bell’s Origin of Islam in its Christian Environment
  
• Chapter Eight W. Montgomery Watt’s Muhammad at Mecca
  
• The Daughters of Allah or the So-called Satanic Verses
  
• More on the “Daughters of Allah” Affair
  
• A Sociological Argument
  
• W. Montgomery Watt’s Muhammad at Medina
  
• Chapter Nine Muhammad at Medina: William Muir’s Analysis
  
• Muhammad and the Jewish Tribes of Medina
  
• The Battle of Badr
  
• Current Research on the Massacre of the B. Qurayza
  
• The Conquest of Khaybar
  
• Chapter Ten Muhammad and the Jews
  
• Muhammad and the Jews: G.D. Newby’s Re-Examination of the Evidence
  
• Chapter Eleven Concluding Sociological Reflections
  
• Abu Bakr and the Ridda
  
• Notes
  
• Bibliography
  
• Index