The Cambridge Companion to MuhammadJonathan E. Brockopp As the Messenger of God, Muhammad stands at the heart of the Islamic religion, revered by Muslims throughout the world. The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad comprises a collection of essays by some of the most accomplished scholars in the field exploring the life and legacy of the Prophet. The book is divided into three sections, the first charting his biography and the milieu into which he was born, the revelation of the Qur'ān, and his role within the early Muslim community. The second part assesses his legacy as a law-maker, philosopher, and politician and, finally, in the third part, chapters examine how Muhammad has been remembered across history in biography, prose, poetry, and, most recently, in film and fiction. Essays are written to engage and inform students, teachers, and readers coming to the subject for the first time. They will come away with a deeper appreciation of the breadth of the Islamic tradition, of the centrality of the role of the Prophet in that tradition, and, indeed, of what it means to be a Muslim today. |
Contents
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Part I Muammad in his world | 19 |
warnings signs and miracles | 39 |
3 Glimpses of Muammads Medinan decade | 61 |
Part II Muammad in history | 81 |
5 Personal piety | 103 |
6 Muammad as the pole of existence | 123 |
7 The Prophet Muammad in ritual | 139 |
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Ab¯u Bakr active intellect Ah.mad al-Bukh¯ar¯ı al-D¯ın al-Ghaz¯al¯ı al-Kind¯ı Al¯ı All¯ah Annemarie Schimmel Arabia Arabic authority Ban¯u Beirut believers biographical process Cairo caliphate Cambridge century AH chapter Christian Companions Constitution of Medina context D¯ar dakwah divine dreams E. J. Brill early Islamic eschatological example figure followers God’s H.ad¯ıth Hadith Haykal hijra human Ibid Ibn Ish.¯aq Ibn S¯ın¯a Ibn Taym¯ıya Ibn Taymiyya Im¯am Indonesia interpretation Jews jurists Khad¯ıja Khazraj leader leadership Leiden literature Machomes mawlid Mecca medieval Medina Messenger Michael Lecker miracles modern mumin¯un Muslim mystical N¯urbakhsh narrative one’s philosophical piety pious political prayer prophecy Prophet Muh.ammad Qur¯an Quraysh religion religious biography reports revelation ritual role Rushdie S¯ıra S¯ura Satanic Verses Schimmel scholars Shaykh Shici siw¯ak soul sources spiritual splitting story Sunn¯ı Sunna T¯ım¯urid Tafs¯ır texts theologians tion tradition trans translation tribal tribe Umayyad University Press Yusuf Islam