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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Illustrations 8 Preface to the fifth edition 9 Introduction 10 Part I: Formative elements of classical Islam 14 Significant dates 14 Chapter 1: Prehistory 16 The foundations of Islam 16 The Near East before Islam 18 The situation in the Arabian peninsula 19 Religion in the Arabian peninsula 19 The significance of Central Arabia 21 Prehistory in Muslim identity 22 The notion of jāhiliyya 22 Discontinuity of Islam with the past 23 The role of the Abrahamic myth 24 The significance of prehistory 26 Suggested further reading 28 Chapter 2: The Qurʾān 29 The Qurʾān as a book 29 God as the central theme 30 The prophets of the past 31 Jesus 33 The message of the judgment day 34 The path to paradise 35 The character of the Qurʾān 38 Muslim accounts of the collection of the text 39 The evidence of the manuscripts 40 The authority of the Qurʾān 41 The Qurʾān as the proof of Islam 42 The doctrine of inimitability 43 Interpretation of the Qurʾān 43 The Qurʾān as an object of faith 46 Suggested further reading 48 Chapter 3: Muḥammad 50 Muslim sources for the life of Muḥammad 50 The life of Muḥammad in th
- Author
- Teresa Bernheimer,Andrew Rippin
- Language
- EN