The Arabs and Islam in Late Antiquity. A Critique of Approaches to Arabic Sources

1. Divergence of Source Interpretation: the Methodenstreit
2. Literary Transmission: Authors, Genres, Traditions
3. Credibility and Factual Confirmation
4. Genres, Authors and Antiquarians Revisited: the Snares of Narrative
5. Fact, Fiction and Narrative Patterns: Ways of Reading
6. Transmission of Testimony: the Voice, the Pen, and the Author
7. The Pertinence of Poetical Evidence
8. Preliminaries to the Use of the Qur'an as an Historical Source
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index