(+) The Quest for the Historical Muhammad (2000 Ibn Warraq), edited volume
<bibexternal title="The Quest for the Historical Muhammad" author="Ibn Warraq"/>
The Quest for the Historical Muhammad (2000) is a volume edited by Ibn Warraq.
Abstract
"This important anthology of the best critical studies of Muhammad and early Islam ranges from the very beginnings of Islamic Studies in the nineteenth century to contemporary research. Both in his selection of essays and in his introduction, Warraq makes it clear that some very serious scholarly and scientific controversies lie at the heart of Islam. Was the Koran dictated by Muhammad at all? Was it actually compiled earlier than a hundred years after the Prophet's death? How much of Muslim sacred tradition, in the light of objective historical analysis, must be dismissed as unreliable hearsay? These disturbing questions, long suppressed throughout the history of Islamic scholarship, are here raised in these erudite and thoroughly researched essays by noted scholars."--Publisher description.
Editions
Published in Amherst, NY [USA]: Prometheus Books, 2000.
Contents
Studies on Muhammad and the rise of Islam : a critical survey / Ibn Warraq -- Origins of Islam : a critical look at the sources / Ibn Rawandi -- Muhammad and the origins of Islam / Ernest Renan -- Koran and tradition : how the life of Muhammad was composed / Henri Lammens -- The age of Muhammad and the chronology of the Sira / Henri Lammens -- Fatima and the daughters of Muhammad / Henri Lammens -- Matters of principle concerning Lammens' Sira studies / C.H. Becker -- The quest of the historical Muhammad / Arthur Jeffrey -- A revaluation of Islamic traditions / Joseph Schacht -- Abraha and Muhammad : some observations apropos of chronology and literary topoi in the early Arabic historical tradition / Lawrence I. Conrad -- The function of asbab al-nuzul in Quranic exegesis / Andrew Rippin -- Methodological approaches to Islamic studies / J. Koren and Y.D. Nevo -- The quest of the historical Muhammad / F.E. Peters -- Recovering lost texts : some methodological issues / Lawrence I. Conrad -- The implications of, and opposition to, the methods of John Wansbrough / Herbert Berg -- John Wansbrough, Islam, and monotheism / G.R. Hawting.