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IntroductionHerbert BergPart I: The Qurʾān and Muḥammad 1.The QurʾānNicolai Sinai2. The Qurʾān and other scripturesDavid Cook3. The collection and canonization of the QurʾānHerbert Berg4. MuḥammadStephen J. Shoemaker5. The sīra,Pavel Pavlovitch6. Ḥadīth and sunnaJens Scheiner7. ExegesisMichael E. Pregill Part II: Identities and communities in early Islam8. Identity and social formation in the early CaliphatePeter Webb9. Pre-Islamic Arabia and early IslamIlkka Lindstedt10. Early Muslims and peoples of the bookFred M. Donner11. Politics and economics of the early CaliphateFanny Bessard12. The myth of the "Shīʿī Perspective”: identity and memory in Early Islam, Najam Haider13. Mysticism in early Islam: The Pre-compilations phaseSara SviriPart III: Modern and contemporary reinterpretation of early Islam14.Modernists and their opponents: reading IslamSimon Wood15. The golden age and the contemporary political order: the Muslim Brotherhood and early IslamRachel M. Scott16. Salafīs: past to present, present to pastJeffrey T. Kenney17. Feminist Muslim (re)interpretations of early IslamAisha GeissingerPart IV: Revisioning early Islam18. Early Islam: an alternative scenario of its emergenceMarkus Gross 19. QurʾānistsDaniel W. Brown20. In search of authenticity: modern discourse over homosexuality through early IslamSara Omar21. True history in black and white: reimagined origins in the Nation of IslamHerbert Berg22. Invocations of early Islam in US discourse(s) of Muslim pluralismJustine Howe