The death of a prophet : the end of Muhammad's life and the beginnings of Islam

The death of a prophet : the end of Muhammad's life and the beginnings of Islam / Stephen J. Shoemaker.

In this study Stephen J. Shoemaker investigates contradictory traditions about the end of Muhammad's life in the Islamic and non-Islamic sources of the seventh and eighth centuries.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shoemaker, Stephen J., 1968-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Divinations.
Subjects:	Muḥammad, > Prophet, > -632. Muḥammad, > Prophet, > -632 Muḥammad > 570-632 Mohammed. Islam > History. Islam > Historiography. RELIGION > Islam > History. Islam Islam > Historiography Geschichtsschreibung Islam. Entstehung. Geschichtsschreibung. History
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Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. "A Prophet Has Appeared, Coming with the Saracens"
Chapter 2. The End of Muhammad's Life in Early Islamic Memory
Chapter 3. The Beginnings of Islam and the End of Days
Chapter 4. From Believers to Muslims, from Jerusalem to the Ḥijāz
Conclusion: Jesus and Muhammad, the Apostle and the Apostles
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments.