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The biography of muḥammed : nature and authenticity / Gregor Schoeler ; translated by Uwe Vagelpohl ; edited by James E. Montgomery

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Schoeler, Gregor
Uniform Title
Charakter und Authentie der muslimischen Überlieferung über des Leben Mohammeds. English
Published
New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
Physical Description
xvi, 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Vagelpohl, Uwe and Montgomery, James E.

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Machine generated contents note: 1.The present work -- 2.On the reliability of the tradition: From the nineteenth century to c. 1980 -- 3.On the reliability of the tradition: Recent trends -- 4.A paradigm shift? -- 5.Cutting the Gordian Knot? -- 6.Procedure -- 1.The main Medinese transmitters: Learning and teaching - the use of writing -- 1.1.`Urwah ibn az-Zubayr -- 1.2.Ibn Sihab az-Zuhri -- 1.3.Muhammad ibn Ishaq -- Excursus: The `Court impulse' -- 1.4.Transmitters of Ibn Ishaq's Kitab al-magazi: Yunus ibn Bukayr, Ziyad al-Bakka i, Salamah ibn al-Fadl -- 1.5.Redactors and adaptors of Ibn Ishaq's Kitab al-magazi: Ibn Hisam, al-Utaridi, at-Tabari -- 1.6.The subsequent transmission of Ibn Hisam's Sirah -- 1.7.Written and oral transmission in the early Medinese teaching system -- 1.8.Summary -- 2.The text in the transmission process: Muhammad's first revelation (the iqra' narration) -- 2.1.The Zuhri recension -- 2.2.Evidence for a possible `Urwah recension -- 2.3.Is `A'isah the original informant? -- 2.4.The Ibn Ishaq recension -- Excursus: Caedmon and Muhammad -- 2.5.The `purged' `Urwah recension -- 2.6.The Zuhri recension again: The two versions -- 2.7.The probable archetype: The narration of the qass Ubayd ibn `Umayr -- 2.8.Other variants of the iqra' narration -- 2.9.The basic components of the traditions about the first revelation -- 2.10.A factual core of the traditions about the experience of the first revelation? -- 2.11.Summary -- 3.The issue of authenticity: The tradition of the slander against `Aisah (hadit al-ifk) -- 3.1.The Zuhri recension -- 3.2.The Ibn Ishaq recension -- Excursus: Chronology -- 3.3.The Waquidi recension -- Excursus: Al-Waquidi's use of his sources and his relation to Ibn Ishaq -- Excursus: The Wansbrough hypothesis - some remarks on the application of the `transmission historical method' to early historical texts -- 3.4.Az-Zuhri's informants -- 3.5.The Hisam ibn `Urwah recension -- Excursus: A method to distinguish between authentic and inauthentic versions of a tradition -- 3.6.The `purged' `Urwah recension -- 3.7.Is `A'isah the original informant? -- 3.8.Inauthentic and problematic imitations of the main recensions -- 3.9.The Husayn recension: An independent transmission? -- 3.10.Authentic and inauthentic traditions -- 3.11.Summary -- Afterword 2009 -- 1.Reviews of the first edition -- 2.Subsequent research on the `Urwah corpus -- 3.A fictitious dialogue -- Appendix 1 The corpus -- I.Muhammad's first revelation: The iqra' narration -- II.The tradition of the slander against `A'isah: The hadit al-ifk -- Appendix 2 List of sigla -- I.Termini technici -- II.Versions of traditions reporting the first revelation experience.
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ISBN
9780415567176
0415567173
9780203850060 (ebook)
0203850068 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [140]-188) and index.
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