TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donner,Fred McGraw
TI  - Muhammad and the believers: at the origins of Islam
SN  - 9780674064140
AV  - BP55 
U1  - 297.09/021 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Muḥammad
KW  - Islam
KW  - History
KW  - Origin
KW  - Antike
KW  - antiquity
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - 622-661
KW  - Class of Spring 2019
KW  - Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History
KW  - Fellow
N1  - Literaturangaben und Index
N2  - The 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
ER  -