Muslims, Jews, Christians and Pagans Studies on Pre- and Early Islamic History

Acknowledgements

Preface

List of Abbreviations

List of Maps

Part 1 Pre-Islamic Idols

Chapter 1

On the idols of the Arabs

al-Maqrīzī, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, IV, Section 2: The Idols of the Arabs, Leiden: Brill, 2022, Introduction, 1—41

Chapter 2

Wadd, the weaponed idol of Dūmat al-Jandal and the quṣṣāṣ

I. Sachet and C.J. Robin (éds.), Dieux et déesses d’Arabie: images et représentations, Paris: De Boccard, 2012, 131—38

Chapter 3

Idol worship in pre-Islamic Yamāma

I. Gajda, F. Briquel-Chatonnet and D. Aigle (éds.), Arabie/Arabies : volume offert à Christian Robin, Paris: Geuthner, 2023, 569—82

Part 2 Muḥammad at Medina

Chapter 4

Lost towns: Zuhra and Yathrib

J. Schiettecatte and C.J. Robin (éds.), L’Arabie à la veille de l’Islam: bilan clinique, Paris: de Boccard, 2009, 29—35

Chapter 5

The houses of Khālid ibn al-Walīd and ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ near the Prophet’s Mosque

O. Peleg-Barkat et alii (eds.), Between the Sea and the Desert: On Kings, Nomads, Cities and Monks. Essays in Honor of Joseph Patrich, Tsemach: Ostracon, 2019, 67—73

Chapter 6

Glimpses of Muḥammad’s Medinan decade

J.E. Brockopp (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Muhammad, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 61—79

Part 3 Jews and Christians in Early Islam

Chapter 7

The Jews of northern Arabia in early Islam

P.I. Lieberman (ed.), Cambridge History of Judaism, vol. 5: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 255—93

Chapter 8

The Exilarch’s dams

E. Bareket, Y. Erder and M. Polliack (eds.), Yad Moshe: Studies in the History of the Jews in Muslim Lands in Memory of Moshe Gil, Tel Aviv University, 2018, 15—26 [Hebrew]

Chapter 9

Tora and Qurʾān in the practice of Abū l-Jald, a Judaeo-Muslim preacher and akhbārī from Baṣra (d. ca. 100/718)

M. Frenkel and P.I. Lieberman (eds.), ‘An Inspired Man’: Studies in Judeo-Arabic Culture Dedicated to the Memory of Joshua Blau, Leiden: Brill, 2024, 168—86

Chapter 10

The itinerant Judaeo-Muslim preacher Abū Rayḥāna and his daughter, Muḥammad’s concubine Rayḥāna

Journal of the American Oriental Society 144 (2024), 585—604

Chapter 11

Najrān Inc.: The Najrānī exiles in Iraq, Syria and Baḥrayn from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb to Hārūn al-Rashīd

J. Beaucamp, F. Briquel-Chatonnet and C.J. Robin (éds.), Juifs et chrétiens en Arabie aux V^e et VI^e siècles: regards croisés sur les sources, Paris: Association des amis du Centre de recherche d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2010, 293—302

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Index  

Biography

Michael Lecker retired from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 2019. He has published extensively on pre- and early Islamic history, the biography of the Prophet Muḥammad and the Jews of the Arabian Peninsula. He is interested in prosopography. In his work, he also examines the potential contributions of cartographic representations and genealogical data to the scholarly investigation of early Islamic historiography. His previous Variorum volumes were published in 1998, 2005 and 2024