The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad's Life and the Beginnings of Islam

Table of Contents

C o n t e n t s Introduction 1 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 18 Chapter 2. The End of Muhammad’s Life in Early Islamic Memory: The Witness of the Sīra Tradition 73 Chapter 3. The Beginnings of Islam and the End of Days: Muhammad as Eschatological Prophet 118 Chapter 4. From Believers to Muslims, from Jerusalem to the Ḥijāz: Confessional Identity and Sacred Geography in Early Islam 197 Conclusion: Jesus and Muhammad, the Apostle and the Apostles 266 Notes 279 Bibliography 353 Index 391 Acknowledgments 407 ...