People, Tribes and Society in Arabia Around the Time of Muhammad

By Michael Lecker

The emergence of Islam has in recent years become a matter of heated debate, mainly because Islamic historiography is a battle-field of contradictory versions of the past. In this second collection of studies, several of which appear here for the first time, Michael Lecker distances himself from the clash of theories, concentrating instead on several basic issues belonging to the preparatory work that still remains to be done on the social and economic environment in which Islam emerged.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860789632
• ISBN13: 9780860789635
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"