The Earliest Writings on the Life of Muhammad: The ‘Urwa Corpus and the Non-Muslim Sources

Andreas Görke; Gregor Schoeler

doi:10.2307/jj.16971577

Search publication

Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-3-95994-126-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-95994-127-3
Publisher: Gerlach Press, Berlin
Series: SLAEI - Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam
Volume: 27
Language: English
Pages: 329
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Preface and Acknowledgments No access
3. Preface to the First [German] Edition (2008) No access
4. The Current State of Research on the Authenticity of the Early Islamic Tradition No access
1. Approaches to the Study of the Historical Muḥammad No access
2. The Corpus of Traditions According to ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr No access
3. Method of Investigation No access
1. Overview of the Transmission No access
2. The -Zuhrī Recension No access
3. 1. Tradition 1 No access
  2. Tradition 2 No access
  3. Tradition 3 No access
4. Problematic Traditions Traced Back to ʿUrwa No access
5. 1. The Isnād No access
  2. The Matn No access
6. Summary No access
1. Overview of the Transmission No access
2. 1. ʿUrwa’s Letter to the Caliph ʿAbd al-Malik No access
  2. Other Traditions Belonging to the Main Transmission No access
3. The Transmission According to Abū l-Zinād No access
4. 1. The Main Transmission According to al-Zuhrī: ʿAbd al-Razzāq ← Maʿmar; ʿUqayl; Yūnus No access
  2. Deviating Versions According to Maʿmar ← al-Zuhrī No access
  3. The Transmission According to ʿUbayd Allāh b. Abī Ziyād ← al-Zuhrī No access
  4. The Transmission According to Ibn Isḥāq ← al-Zuhrī No access
  5. Summary: The Transmission According to al-Zuhrī No access
5. The Transmission According to Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān No access
6. The Transmission According to Muḥammad b. Ǧaʿfar No access
7. Parallel Transmissions According to Mūsā b. ʿUqba No access
8. Other Traditions About the Hiǧra No access
9. Summary No access
1. Overview of the Transmission No access
2. 1. ʿUrwa’s Letter to the Caliph ʿAbd al-Malik No access
  2. The Text of the Letter as the Source of Mūsā b. ʿUqba’s Report on Badr No access
  3. Individual Traditions According to Hišām b. ʿUrwa No access
3. The Traditions According to al-Zuhrī No access
4. Traditions According to Other Transmitters No access
5. The Ibn Isḥāq ← Yazīd b. Rūmān Recension No access
6. Excursus: Mūsā b. ʿUqba’s Report on Badr as the Source of Ibn Isḥāq’s Badr Chapter No access
7. Traditions Traced Back to ʿUrwa in al-Wāqidī No access
8. Summary No access
1. Overview of the Transmission No access
2. 1. The -Zuhrī Recension No access
  2. The Hišām b. ʿUrwa Recension No access
  3. Comparison of the Two Recensions No access
3. Other Traditions According to Hišām b. ʿUrwa No access
4. Other Traditions According to al-Zuhrī No access
5. Excursus: The -Zuhrī Recension of the Uḥud Report in ʿAbd al-Razzāq No access
6. Traditions Traced Back to ʿUrwa by al-Wāqidī No access
7. Summary No access
1. Overview of the Transmission No access
2. The -Zuhrī-Recension No access
3. The Hišām b. ʿUrwa Recension No access
4. The Story of ʿĀʾiša’s Lost Necklace No access
5. Elements Going Back with Certainty to ʿUrwa No access
6. Summary No access
1. Overview of the Transmission No access
2. The Hišām b. ʿUrwa Recension No access
3. The Ibn Isḥāq ← Yazīd b. Rūmān Recension No access
4. A Tradition of Ibn Isḥāq According to Muḥammad b. Ǧaʿfar No access
5. The -Zuhrī Recension No access
6. Excursus: Traditions Traced Back to al-Zuhrī by al-Wāqidī No access
7. Summary No access
1. Overview of the Transmission No access
2. The Transmission According to Hišām b. ʿUrwa No access
3. 1. The Transmission According to Ibn Isḥāq ← al-Zuhrī No access
  2. The Transmission According to Maʿmar ← al-Zuhrī No access
  3. The Transmission According to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ← al-Zuhrī No access
  4. The Transmission According to Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh ← al-Zuhrī No access
  5. The Transmission According to Sufyān b. ʿUyayna ← al-Zuhrī No access
  6. The Transmission According to ʿUqayl ← al-Zuhrī No access
  7. The Transmission According to Yūnus b. Yazīd ← al-Zuhrī No access
4. A Tradition in al-Qummī’s Tafsīr No access
5. Summary No access
1. Overview of the Transmission No access
2. 1. The Transmission According to Hišām b. ʿUrwa No access
  2. The Transmission According to Abū l-Zinād No access
  3. The Transmission According to al-Zuhrī No access
  4. The Transmission According to Muḥammad b. Ǧaʿfar No access
  5. Traditions According to Mūsā b. ʿUqba No access
3. Other Traditions Surrounding the Conquest of Mecca No access
4. Summary No access
1. The Corpus of the Sīra Traditions According to ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr No access
2. 1. ʿUrwa’s Letters No access
  2. ʿUrwa’s Most Important Lecture-based Traditions No access
  3. Additional Material on the Events Investigated No access
  4. Transmitters of ʿUrwa’s Legal and Exegetical Traditions No access
  5. Summary: The Different Types of Transmission No access
3. ʿUrwa’s Informants No access
4. 1. Material on the Prophet’s Biography Certainly Going Back to ʿUrwa No access
  2. Elements Probably Going Back to ʿUrwa No access
  3. Events that ʿUrwa Probably Did Not Report on No access
5. The Nature ofʿUrwa’s Sīra Traditions No access
6. The Beginnings of the Sīra and Maġāzī Literature No access
1. Non-Muslim Sources as Provocation of Islamic Studies No access
2. 1. 1. The Doctrina Iacobi Nuper Baptizati, 634 (?; Probably Considerably Later). No access
  2. 2. Chronicle, Attributed to a Presbyter Thomas, Around 640. No access
  3. 3. The Apocalypse (Secrets, Mysteries; Nistarot) of Rabbi Šimʿôn b. Yoḥai, 635-645 (?; Probably Late No access
  4. 4. Anonymous History of Armenia, Attributed to Bishop Sebeos, Around 655. No access
  5. 5. The So-called Khuzistan Chronicle, Around 660. No access
  6. 6. The History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Before 717. No access
3. Muḥammad and the Jews No access
4. Summary No access
1. ad 1.) On the Armenian History, Attributed to Sebeos. No access
2. ad 2.) On the Apocalypse of Rabbi Šimʿôn b. Yoḥai (Written 635-645 [?], or Later). No access
3. ad 3.) On the Doctrina Iacobi. No access
1. On the Possibility of “revealing at least something of what really happened during Muḥammad’s career No access
2. On the Authenticity of ʿUrwa’s Letters and the Necessity to Combine Isnād and Matn-Criticism No access
3. On the Possibility of “somewhat bridging the gap in the transmission about the early Islam” No access
4. Are Our Authenticity Criteria Too Strict? - On the Review of Wilferd Madelung No access
1. Ad Die ältesten Berichte, 11 No access
2. Ad Die ältesten Berichte, 41, point 14, and 75 No access
3. Ad Die ältesten Berichte, 33-34; Charakter und Authentie, 81-85 (= The Biography, 54-57) No access
4. Ad Die ältesten Berichte, 128-130 No access
5. Ad Charakter und Authentie, 60-61 (=The Biography, 62-63) No access
1. Primary Sources No access
2. Studies No access
Index No access Pages 289 - 310
About the Authors No access Pages 311 - 312