The Heirs Of Muhammad

Author : Barnaby Rogerson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780748124701

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The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establish Islam and a new civilization. That the protagonists originated from the small oasis communities of central Arabia gives their adventures, their rivalries, their loves and their achievements an additional vivacity and intimacy. So that on one hand, THE HEIRS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD is a swaggering saga of ambition, immense achievement, self-sacrificing nobility and blood rivalry, while on the other it allows us to understand some of the complexities of our modern world. For within this fifty-year span of conquest and empire-building, Barnaby Rogerson also identifies the seeds of discord that destroyed the unity of Islam, and traces the roots of the schism between Sunni and Shia Muslims to the rivalry of the two individuals who best knew and loved the Prophet: his cousin and son-in-law Ali and his wife Aisha.

Author : Barnaby Rogerson
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780748124701

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The Heirs Of The Prophet Muhammad by Barnaby Rogerson Pdf

The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establish Islam and a new civilization. That the protagonists originated from the small oasis communities of central Arabia gives their adventures, their rivalries, their loves and their achievements an additional vivacity and intimacy. So that on one hand, THE HEIRS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD is a swaggering saga of ambition, immense achievement, self-sacrificing nobility and blood rivalry, while on the other it allows us to understand some of the complexities of our modern world. For within this fifty-year span of conquest and empire-building, Barnaby Rogerson also identifies the seeds of discord that destroyed the unity of Islam, and traces the roots of the schism between Sunni and Shia Muslims to the rivalry of the two individuals who best knew and loved the Prophet: his cousin and son-in-law Ali and his wife Aisha.

Author : Liyakat N. Takim
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791481912

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The Heirs of the Prophet by Liyakat N. Takim Pdf

Looks at how various factions used the tradition that scholars were the “heirs of the Prophet” during the classical period of Islam (570–1258 CE).

Author : Barnaby Rogerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Islam
ISBN : OCLC:1200487799

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The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad by Barnaby Rogerson Pdf

Author : Barnaby Rogerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030197093

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The Heirs of Muhammad by Barnaby Rogerson Pdf

[In this book, the author] recounts the lives of the handful of individuals - the first four Caliphs, the Prophet's widows and the conquering generals - who led and influenced Islam after the death of Muhammad. Within this fifty-year span of conquest and empire-building, [the author] identifies the seeds of discord and civil war that destroyed the unity of Islam and traces the roots of the schism between Sunni and Shia Muslims to the rivalry of the two people who best knew and loved the Prophet: his cousin and son-in-law Ali and his wife Aisha. -Dust jacket.

Author : Jonathan E. Brockopp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107106666

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Muhammad's Heirs by Jonathan E. Brockopp Pdf

This book describes the emergence of Muslim scholarly communities from the origins of Islam until the mid-tenth century through the examination of early Muslim texts and discourse. It is for scholars and advanced students studying Middle Eastern history, Islamic studies, Islamic law and early Islamic literature.

Author : Barnaby Rogerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Islam
ISBN : OCLC:1056589331

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The Heirs of Muhammad by Barnaby Rogerson Pdf

Author : Barnaby Rogerson
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781587680298

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The Prophet Muhammad by Barnaby Rogerson Pdf

"In this biography, Barnaby Rogerson explores the life and times of this deeply influential figure. Vividly describing the sixth-century Arabia where Muhammad was born, Rogerson charts his early years among the flocks, the caravans and the markets of his native Mecca; the night the Archangel Gabriel appeared before him and Muhammad become the messenger of God; the dangerous years of reciting the divine revelations in Mecca; his escape to Yathrib (Medina) and the subsequent battles between the pagan Meccans and the Prophet's Muslim forces, who would ultimately prove victorious."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Arthur F. Buehler
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781643364070

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Sufi Heirs of the Prophet by Arthur F. Buehler Pdf

An examination of the sources and evolution of personal authority in one Islamic society Sufi Heirs of the Prophet explores the multifaceted development of personal authority in Islamic societies by tracing the transformation of one mystical sufi lineage in colonial India, the Naqshbandiyya. Arthur F. Buehler isolates four sources of personal authority evident in the practices of the Naqshbandiyya—lineage, spiritual traveling, status as a Prophetic exemplar, and the transmission of religious knowledge—to demonstrate how Muslim religious leaders have exercised charismatic leadership through their association with the most compelling of personal Islamic symbols, the Prophet Muhammad. Buehler clarifies the institutional structure of sufism, analyzes overlapping configurations of personal sufi authority, and details how and why revivalist Indian Naqshbandis abandoned spiritual practices that had sustained their predecessors for more than five centuries. He looks specifically at the role of Jama'at 'Ali Shah (d. 1951) to explain current Naqshbandi practices.

Author : J. Lilu Chen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1463239254

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Chinese Heirs to Muhammad by J. Lilu Chen Pdf

This book tells the story of history as imagined by Hui Muslims in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China. Chen argues that this was an especially productive period for historical thought, bookended by the establishment of a robust Sino-Islamic knowledge base by Liu Zhi on one end and Republican China on the other end. Histories from this period unify a vast temporal and spatial expanse: from genesis to antiquity to the modern era, from Arabia to Central Asia to China. Hui historians string together places and times into a coherent, continuous narrative for the community.

Author : Hassan Abbas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300252057

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The Prophet's Heir by Hassan Abbas Pdf

The life and legacy of one of Mohammad’s closest confidants and Islam’s patron saint: Ali ibn Abi Talib Ali ibn Abi Talib is arguably the single most important spiritual and intellectual authority in Islam after prophet Mohammad. Through his teachings and leadership as fourth caliph, Ali nourished Islam. But Muslims are divided on whether he was supposed to be Mohammad’s political successor—and he continues to be a polarizing figure in Islamic history. Hassan Abbas provides a nuanced, compelling portrait of this towering yet divisive figure and the origins of sectarian division within Islam. Abbas reveals how, after Mohammad, Ali assumed the spiritual mantle of Islam to spearhead the movement that the prophet had led. While Ali’s teachings about wisdom, justice, and selflessness continue to be cherished by both Shia and Sunni Muslims, his pluralist ideas have been buried under sectarian agendas and power politics. Today, Abbas argues, Ali’s legacy and message stands against that of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and Taliban.

Author : Michael Cooperson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1139426699

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Classical Arabic Biography by Michael Cooperson Pdf

Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In this 2000 study exploring the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities of political, scholarly and religious communities. The author also explains how medieval Arab scholars used biography to tell the life-stories of important historical figures by examining the careers of the Abbasid Caliph al- Ma'mun, the Shiite Imam Ali al-Rida, the Sunni scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal and the ascetic Bishr al-Hafi, each of whom represented a tradition of political and spiritual heirship to the Prophet. Drawing on anthropology and comparative religion, as well as history and literary criticism, the book considers how each figure responded to the presence of the others and how these responses were preserved by posterity.

Author : Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad
Publisher : Islam International Publications Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848808546

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Muhammad the Liberator of Women by Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad Pdf

Throughout history, women have been powerless and weak. Before the Holy Prophet Muhammad's arrival, a woman was regarded as man's slave and property, and no religion or nation could offer the woman rights and freedom. When their husbands died, they were forced to marry relatives or sold for money. There was no law that could protect them. Prophet Muhammad proclaimed in the name of God that men and women are equal. He declared that a man does not own his wife. He may not sell or force her into slavery. The teaching of the Holy Prophet raised the status of women as being not only equal to men, but also gave them freedom for social, physical and spiritual development. This book is about women's rights and freedom in Islam and shows that Holy Prophet Muhammad was indeed the liberator of women.

Author : Wilferd Madelung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521646960

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The Succession to Muhammad by Wilferd Madelung Pdf

In a comprehensive study of early Islamic history, Wilferd Madelung examines the conflict which developed after Muhammad's death for the leadership of the Muslim community. He pursues the history of this conflict through the reign of the four 'Rightly Guided' caliphs to its climax in the first inter-Muslim war. The outcome of the war, which marked the demise of the reign of the Early Companions, resulted in the lasting schism between Sunnite and Shi'ite Islam. Contrary to recent scholarly trends, the author brings out Ali's early claim to legitimate succession, which gained support from the Shi'a, and offers a convincing reinterpretation of early Islamic history. This book will make a major contribution to the debate over succession. Wilferd Madelung's book The Succession to Muhammad has been awarded the Best Book of the Year prize by the Islamic Republic of Iran for the year 1997.

Author : David S. Powers
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 081220557X

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Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men by David S. Powers Pdf

The Islamic claim to supersede Judaism and Christianity is embodied in the theological assertion that the office of prophecy is hereditary but that the line of descent ends with Muhammad, who is the seal, or last, of the prophets. While Muhammad had no natural sons who reached the age of maturity, he is said to have adopted a man named Zayd, and mutual rights of inheritance were created between the two. Zayd b. Muhammad, also known as the Beloved of the Messenger of God, was the first adult male to become a Muslim and the only Muslim apart from Muhammad to be named in the Qur'an. But if prophecy is hereditary and Muhammad has a son, David Powers argues, then he might not be the Last Prophet. Conversely, if he is the Last Prophet, he cannot have a son. In Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men, Powers contends that a series of radical moves were made in the first two centuries of Islamic history to ensure Muhammad's position as the Last Prophet. He focuses on narrative accounts of Muhammad's repudiation of Zayd, of his marriage to Zayd's former wife, and of Zayd's martyrdom in battle against the Byzantines. Powers argues that theological imperatives drove changes in the historical record and led to the abolition or reform of key legal institutions. In what is likely to be the most controversial aspect of his book, he offers compelling physical evidence that the text of the Qur'an itself was altered.