The making of the last prophet : a reconstruction of the earliest biography of Muhammad

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The making of the last prophet : a reconstruction of the earliest biography of Muhammad

[reconstructed] by Gordon Darnell Newby

University of South Carolina Press, c1989

  • : pbk

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Kitāb al-Mubtadaʾ

Kitāb al-ubtadaʾ

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注記

Bibliography: p. 242-249

Includes index

Translation of first section of Ibn Isḥāq's Sīrat Rasūl Allāh

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内容説明

The sacred biography of Muhammad has shaped Muslims' perceptions of the place of Islam in the religious history of the world and located the Islamic founder and prophet as the last of God's messengers. As Muslims established political control over ancient Jewish and Christian communities, they also claimed hegemony over the panorama of biblical prophets and holy men. In the eighth century, the author of the first complete biography of Muhammad set out a plan for a history of the world that culminated with the advent of Muhammad and the religion of Islam. The biography not only gave the details of Muhammad's life but also retold the stories of past prophets from an Islamic perspective. The Making of the Last Prophet is an examination of the reshaping and retelling of the biblical past to form the image of Muhammad as the "Seal" of the prophets of God. Through a translation of the reconstructed Arabic text, the sources, the form, and uses of the eighth-century biography are examined for the ways in which attitudes toward Muhammad were shaped in early Islam. The work particularly underscores the interplay of Jewish, Christian, and other Near Eastern religious ideals in the formation of Islam's notions of prophethood.

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