1st Edition
Studies on the Life of Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam Idol Worshippers, Christians and Jews in Pre- and Early Islam
Part 1: Arabia on the Eve of Islam
1 Pre-Islamic Arabia
2 The Monotheistic Cousins of Muḥammad’s Wife Khadīja
Part 2: Muḥammad at Medina
3 Were the Ghassānids and the Byzantines behind Muḥammad’s hijra?
4 Genealogy and Politics: Muḥammad’s Family Links with the Khazraj
5 The Emigration of ʿUtba ibn Abī Waqqāṣ
6 Did the Quraysh Conclude a Treaty with the Anṣār Prior to the hijra?
Part 3: Muḥammad and the Jews
7 Abū Mālik ʿAbdallāh b. Sām of Kinda, a Jewish Convert to Islam
8 Were the Jewish Tribes in Arabia Clients of Arab Tribes?
9 Did Muḥammad Conclude Treaties with the Jewish Tribes Naḍīr, Qurayẓa and Qaynuqāʿ?
10 The Assassination of the Jewish Merchant Ibn Sunayna according to an Authentic Family Account
11 Were there Female Relatives of the Prophet Muḥammad among the Besieged Qurayẓa?
12 Wāqidī (d. 822) vs. Zuhrī (d. 742): The Fate of the Jewish Banū Abī l-Ḥuqayq
Part 4: Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq and the sīra
13 Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ṣāḥib al-sīra/ṣāḥib al-maghāzī
14 Muḥammad b. Isḥāq ṣāḥib al-maghāzī: Was his Grandfather Jewish?
15 When did Ibn Isḥāq compose his maghāzī ?
16 Notes about Censorship and Self-Censorship in the Biography of the Prophet Muḥammad
Part 5: Studies on early Islamic Literature
17 The Jewish Reaction to the Islamic Conquests
18 Wa-bi-Rādhān mā bi-Rādhān...: The landed Property of ʿAbdallāh ibn Masʿūd
19 On the Burial of Martyrs in Islam
20 The Futūḥ al-Shām of ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Rabīʿa al-Qudāmī
Biography
Michael Lecker is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on pre- and early Islamic history, the biography of the Prophet Muḥammad and the Jews of the Arabian Peninsula.
