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PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10081222342X
ISBN-139780812223422
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Number of Pages416 Pages
Publication NameDeath of a Prophet : the End of Muhammad's Life and the Beginnings of Islam
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
SubjectIslam / History, Religious, Middle East / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorStephen J. Shoemaker
Subject AreaReligion, Biography & Autobiography, History
SeriesDivinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight22.6 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6.6 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsA work of utmost importance, and one that has profound implications for our understanding of how Islam began., "[Shoemaker] develops [previous ideas] substantially, discusses them in the light of recent publications, and also offers highly instructive parallels with the situation in (and scholarship on) early Christianity. . . . [He] has done a very good job of highlighting the issues and giving them sophisticated and thorough discussion, and [ The Death of a Prophet ] is a worthwhile addition to the fast-expanding body of material on Islamic origins."-- Journal of the American Oriental Society, [Shoemaker] develops [previous ideas] substantially, discusses them in the light of recent publications, and also offers highly instructive parallels with the situation in (and scholarship on) early Christianity. . . . [He] has done a very good job of highlighting the issues and giving them sophisticated and thorough discussion, and [ The Death of a Prophet ] is a worthwhile addition to the fast-expanding body of material on Islamic origins., "A work of utmost importance, and one that has profound implications for our understanding of how Islam began."--Fred Donner, University of Chicago
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Dewey Decimal297.635
Table Of ContentIntroduction Chapter 1. "A Prophet Has Appeared, Coming with the Saracens": Muhammad's Leadership during the Conquest of Palestine According to Seventh- and Eighth-Century Sources Chapter 2. The End of Muhammad's Life in Early Islamic Memory: The Witness of the Sira Tradition Chapter 3. The Beginnings of Islam and the End of Days: Muhammad as Eschatological Prophet Chapter 4. From Believers to Muslims, from Jerusalem to the Hijaz: Confessional Identity and Sacred Geography in Early Islam Conclusion: Jesus and Muhammad, the Apostle and the Apostles Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
SynopsisStephen J. Shoemaker investigates contradictory traditions about the end of Muhammad's life in the Islamic and non-Islamic sources of the seventh and eighth centuries., The oldest Islamic biography of Muhammad, written in the mid-eighth century, relates that the prophet died at Medina in 632, while earlier and more numerous Jewish, Christian, Samaritan, and even Islamic sources indicate that Muhammad survived to lead the conquest of Palestine, beginning in 634-35. Although this discrepancy has been known for several decades, Stephen J. Shoemaker here writes the first systematic study of the various traditions. Using methods and perspectives borrowed from biblical studies, Shoemaker concludes that these reports of Muhammad's leadership during the Palestinian invasion likely preserve an early Islamic tradition that was later revised to meet the needs of a changing Islamic self-identity. Muhammad and his followers appear to have expected the world to end in the immediate future, perhaps even in their own lifetimes, Shoemaker contends. When the eschatological Hour failed to arrive on schedule and continued to be deferred to an ever more distant point, the meaning of Muhammad's message and the faith that he established needed to be fundamentally rethought by his early followers. The larger purpose of The Death of a Prophet exceeds the mere possibility of adjusting the date of Muhammad's death by a few years; far more important to Shoemaker are questions about the manner in which Islamic origins should be studied. The difference in the early sources affords an important opening through which to explore the nature of primitive Islam more broadly. Arguing for greater methodological unity between the study of Christian and Islamic origins, Shoemaker emphasizes the potential value of non-Islamic sources for reconstructing the history of formative Islam.
LC Classification NumberBP55.S46 2015
