The Life of Muhammad

Contents: Introduction; Authors of Muhammad's Biography: 'Maghazi' and 'Sira' in early Islamic scholarship, Martin Hinds; Ibn Ishaq and al-Waqidi: the dream of Atika and the raid to Nakhla in relation to the charge of plagiarism, J. M. B. Jones; Waqidi's account on the status of the Jews of Medina: a study of a combined report, Michael Lecker; Events in the Life of Muhammad: Abraha and Muhammad: some observations apropos of chronology and literary topoi in the early Arabic historical tradition, Lawrence I. Conrad; The sons of Khadija, M. J. Kister; The first Muslims in Mecca: a social basis for a new religion?, Miklos Muranyi; The meetings at al-'Akaba, Gertrud Melamede; The sunnah jami'ah, pacts with the Yathrib Jews, and the tahrim of Yathrib: analysis and translation of the documents comprised in the so-called 'Constitution of Medina', R. B. Serjeant; The chronology of the Maghazi - a textual survey, J. M. B. Jones; Al-Hudaybiya: an alternative version, Furrukh B. Ali; Al-Hudaybiya and the conquest of Mecca: a reconsideration of the tradition about the Muslim takeover of the sanctuary, G. R. Hawting; The Idealised Muhammad: The growth of the Mohammad legend, Josef Horovitz; Jerusalem in the story of Muhammad's night journey and the ascension, Heribert Busse; Muhammed and the prophets, A.J. Wensinck; Muhammad and Christian Apologies: The prophet Muhammad: his scripture and his message according to the Christian apologies in Arabic and Syriac from the first abbasid century, Sidney H. Griffith; Index.