The Eye of the Beholder: The Life of Muhammad as Viewed by the Early Muslims

by Uri Rubin

Detailed examination of traditions about Muhammad which illustrate particular themes thought to be part of the biblical prophetic paradigm: attestation, preparation, the experience of revelation, persecution, and "salvation," this last meaning the hijra. The author analyzes the ways in which Muhammad's early biographers sought to shape the Prophet's biography through biblically based, and later Qur'anic, modes of authentication. The author has abandoned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 395994098X
• ISBN13: 9783959940986
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Gerlach Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.