MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02234cam a2200289 a 4500
001 2009052195
003 DLC
005 20100917075730.0
008 091211s2010 mauab b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aBP55$b.D66 2010
082 00 $a297.09/021$222
100 1 $aDonner, Fred McGraw,$d1945-
245 10 $aMuhammad and the believers :$bat the origins of Islam /$cFred M. Donner.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,$c2010.
300 $axviii, 280 p. :$bill., maps ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-255) and index.
505 0 $aThe Near East on the eve of Islam. The empires of the late antique Near East ; Arabia between the Great Powers ; Mecca and Yathrib (Medina) -- Muhammad and the Believers' Movement. The traditional biography of Muhammad the Prophet ; The problem of sources ; The character of the early Believers' Movement -- The expansion of the Community of Believers. Sources ; The Community in the last years of Muhammad's life ; Succession to Muhammad and the Ridda Wars ; The character of the Believers' early expansion ; The course and scope of the early expansion -- The struggle for leadership of the Community 34-73/655-692. Background of the First Civil War ; The course of the first Civil War (35-40/656-661) ; Between civil wars (40-60/661-680) ; The Second Civil War (60-73/680-692) ; Reflections on the civil wars -- The emergence of Islam. The Umayyad Restoration and return to the imperial agenda ; The redefinition of key terms ; Emphasis on Muhammad and the Qur'an ; The problem of the Trinity ; Elaboration of Islamic cultic practices ; Elaboration of the Islamic origins story ; The coalescence of an "Arab" political identity ; Official vs. popular change -- Appendix A. The Umma document -- Appendix B. Inscriptions in the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem.
650 0 $aIslam$xOrigin.
650 0 $aIslam$xHistory.
651 0 $aIslamic Empire$xHistory$y622-661.
600 00 $aMuḥammad,$cProphet,$dd. 632.