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This volume includes twenty articles published between 1994 and 2020 on the subject of Muhammad and the history of early Islam, covered in five sections: Arabia on the Eve of Islam, Müammad at Medina, Müammad and the Jews, Müammad ibn Is¿¿q and the
s¿ra and Studies on Early Islamic Literature.
List of contents
1 Pre-Islamic Arabia / 2 The Monotheistic Cousins of Mu¿ammad's Wife Khad¿ja / 3 Were the Ghass¿nids and the Byzantines behind Mu¿ammad's hijra? / 4 Genealogy and Politics: Mu¿ammad's Family Links with the Khazraj / 5 The Emigration of ¿Utba ibn Ab¿ Waqq¿¿6 Did the Quraysh Conclude a Treaty with the An¿¿r Prior to the hijra? / 7 Ab¿ M¿lik ¿Abdall¿h b. S¿m of Kinda, a Jewish Convert to Islam / 8 Were the Jewish Tribes in Arabia Clients of Arab Tribes? / 9 Did Mu¿ammad Conclude Treaties with the Jewish Tribes Nä¿r, Quray¿a and Qaynuq¿¿? / 10 The Assassination of the Jewish Merchant Ibn Sunayna according to an Authentic Family Account / 11 Were there Female Relatives of the Prophet Mu¿ammad among the Besieged Quray¿a? / 12 W¿qid¿ (d. 822) vs. Zuhr¿ (d. 742): The Fate of the Jewish Ban¿ Ab¿ l-¿uqayq / 13 Mu¿ammad ibn Is¿¿q
¿¿¿ib al-s¿ra/
¿¿¿ib al-magh¿z¿ / 14 Mu¿ammad b. Is¿¿q
¿¿¿ib al-magh¿z¿: Was his Grandfather Jewish? / 15 When did Ibn Is¿¿q compose his
magh¿z¿ ? / 16 Notes about Censorship and Self-Censorship in the Biography of the Prophet Mu¿ammad / 17 The Jewish Reaction to the Islamic Conquests / 18
Wa-bi-R¿dh¿n m¿ bi-R¿dh¿n...: The landed Property of ¿Abdall¿h ibn Mas¿¿d / 19 On the Burial of Martyrs in Islam / 20 The Fut¿¿ al-Sh¿m of ¿Abdall¿h b. Mu¿ammad b. Rab¿¿a al-Qud¿m¿
About the author
Michael Lecker is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on pre- and early Islamic history, the biography of the Prophet Müammad and the Jews of the Arabian Peninsula.
