Muhammad
The Mecca and Medina Stories
Published on 21. February 2012
Book
Hardback
528 pages
978-1-61614-515-6 (ISBN)
Description
This is a thoroughly researched and eminently readable biography of the prophet Muhammad. Who was Muhammad? What do historians actually know about the founder of Islam? In this biography of Muhammad - now available in English for the first time - eminent Dutch scholar Hans Jensen examines the original Arabic accounts of Muhammad's life to uncover both the historical facts about the life of the Prophet and the intent of the authors of the earliest Muslim chroniclers. Jensen comes to the conclusion that, like the gospel writers who penned the first accounts of the life of Jesus, Ibn Ishaq and Ibn Hisham were more interested in creating a portrait of an inspired prophet of God than in writing an objective history of events in the life of Muhammad.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amherst
United States
Illustrations
b&w photographs throughout
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-61614-515-6 (9781616145156)
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Person
Hans Jensen is a former professor of Contemporary Islamic though at Utrecht State University, and associate professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Leiden State University.