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Muhammad and the Empires of Faith.The Making of the Prophet of IslamTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsThe Caliphs, 632–809Introduction: The Making of the Historical MuhammadPART I. BEFORE THE SIRAH-MAGHAZI LITERATURE1. The Earliest Evidence   Three Early Non-Muslim Testimonies to Muhammad   Revisiting the Doctrina Iacobi   The “Keys to Paradise” in Late Antique Religious Discourse   The “Keys to Paradise” in Early Islamic Preaching   The Doctrina Iacobi and the Historical Muhammad  2. Muhammad the Merchant   The Earliest Depictions of Muhammad as a Merchant   Muhammad’s Occupation in the Hadith and Sirah-Maghazi Literature   Muhammad as a Trader in Arabic Sources   Muhammad and the Monk   The Merchants of MeccaPART II. THE BEGINNINGS OF HTE SIRAH-MAGHAZI LITERATURE3. The Beginnings of the Corpus   The Umayyads and the Beginnings of the Sirah-Maghazi Tradition   ?Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan and ?Urwah ibn al-Zubayr  4. The Letters of ?Urwah ibn al-Zubayr   The Chains of Transmission for ?Urwah’s Letters   A Translation of the Letters Attributed to ?Urwah ibn al-Zubayr   Letter 1. From the Persecutions in Mecca to the Hijrah to Yathrib   Letter 2. Khadijah’s death and the Prophet’s marriage to ?A?ishah   Letter 3. The Battle of Badr   Letter 4. On al-Hudaybiyah, a Gloss on Q. Mumtahinah 60:10–12   Letter 5. The Conquest of Mecca and al-Ta?if   Letter 6. On the Hums   Letter 7. ?A?ishah’s Accusers   Letter 8. On Khuwaylah, the wife of Aws ibn al-Samit, a Gloss on      Q. Mujadalah 58:1–4   Letter 9. On the Prophet’s Marriage to a Sister of al-Ash?ath ibn Qays  5. The Court Impulse   Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri and the Umayyads 132   The Corpus of Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri 140   Ibn Ish.aq and the Abbasids 150   The Corpus of Ibn Ish.aq 158  PART III. LOCATING THE SIRAH-MAGHAZI LITERATURE IN LATE ANTIQUITY  6. Prophecy and Empires of Faith   Prophecy and the Rhetoric of Empire   The Vision of Heraclius   Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri’s Christian Source   Translatio Imperii in the Early Sirah-Maghazi Literature  7. Muhammad and Cædmon   Cædmon’s Call and The Iqra? Narrative   From Muhammad’s Call to Cædmon’s Call   Mechanisms of Narrative Influence   The Iqra? Narrative—Early, but not Historical   Excursus: Alternative Accounts of Muhammad’s First Revelation     Epilogue: The Future of the Historical Muhammad  BibliographyIndex&#160;About the BookIn Muhammad and the Empires of Faith, Sean W. Anthony demonstrates how critical readings of non-Muslim and Muslim sources in tandem can breathe new life into the historical study of Muhammad and how his message transformed the world. By placing these sources within the intellectual and cultural world of Late Antiquity, Anthony offers a fresh assessment of the earliest sources for Muhammad’s life, taking readers on a grand tour of the available evidence, and suggests what new insights stand to be gained from the techniques and methods pioneered by countless scholars over the decades in a variety of fields. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith offers both an authoritative introduction to the multilayered traditions surrounding the life of Muhammad and a compelling exploration of how these traditions interacted with the broader landscape of Late Antiquity.About the AuthorSean W. Anthony is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University and author of The Caliph and the Heretic: Ibn Saba and the Origins of Shiism and Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle: Umayyad Crucifixion in its Late Antique Context.&#160;https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520340411/muhammad-and-the-empires-of-faithhttps://content.ucpress.edu/title/9780520340411/9780520340411_intro.pdf&#160;