Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia

This volume comprises articles dealing with qur''anic and post-qur''anic aspects of the Prophet Muhammad''s image and religious environment. The pieces in the first section analyse Muhammad''s prophecy as reflected in the Qur''an and the post-qur''anic sources of sira (Muhammad''s biography), tafsir (Qur''an exegesis), ta''rikh (historiography) and hadith (Muslim tradition). They reveal aspects of...