{"product_id":"the-death-of-a-prophet-9780812223422","title":"The Death of a Prophet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[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 [\u003ci\u003eThe Death of a Prophet\u003c\/i\u003e] is a worthwhile addition to the fast-expanding body of material on Islamic origins.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Oriental Society\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A work of utmost importance, and one that has profound implications for our understanding of how Islam began.\" * Fred Donner, University of Chicago *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The End of Muhammad's Life in Early Islamic Memory: The Witness of the Sira Tradition\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Beginnings of Islam and the End of Days: Muhammad as Eschatological Prophet\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. From Believers to Muslims, from Jerusalem to the Hijaz: Confessional Identity and Sacred Geography in Early Islam\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Jesus and Muhammad, the Apostle and the Apostles\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865979859287,"sku":"9780812223422","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812223422.jpg?v=1722276478","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-death-of-a-prophet-9780812223422","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}