Episodes
Tuesday Sep 27, 2011
EP.5--Religion: Approaching Muhammad (Challenges; Sources: Qur'an, Hadith, Sira)
Tuesday Sep 27, 2011
Tuesday Sep 27, 2011
In this episode of the World of Islam, we continue our survey of the history of Islamic thought, by looking at some of the difficulties inherent in approaching the life and career of Muhammad. We consider what Muslim sources tell a modern historian about the Prophet of Islam.
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Sources and Recommended Readings:
Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Jonathan A.C. Brown
Muhammad (Past Masters) by Michael Cook
Images of Muhammad: Narratives of the Prophet in Islam Across the Centuries by Tarif Khalidi
The Life of Muhammad by I. Ishaq
Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters by Omid Safi
The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad (Cambridge Companions to Religion) by Jonathan E. Brockopp
Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam by Fred M. Donner
Monday Sep 19, 2011
EP.4--Religion: The Pre-Islamic Environment III (Arabia)
Monday Sep 19, 2011
Monday Sep 19, 2011
This episode of the World of Islam provides a short introduction to Arabia on the eve of the movement of Muhammad. Among other things, we discuss the problem of sources for the modern historian, the characteristics of Arab life, the religious perspectives of the Arabs, and the relation of Arabia to the two major empires of the time.
Saturday Sep 10, 2011
EP.3--Religion: The Pre-Islamic Environment II (Christianity, Zoroastrianism)
Saturday Sep 10, 2011
Saturday Sep 10, 2011
This episode of the World of Islam continues looking into the world in which the religion of Islam would eventually develop. We will take a brief look at Christianity and Zoroastrianism in the Near East of late antiquity.
Thursday Sep 01, 2011
Thursday Sep 01, 2011
This episode of the World of Islam starts a historical survey of Islamic thought by looking into the world in which the religion of Islam would eventually develop. We will briefly discuss the Near East in late antiquity in general as well as introduce Judaism and some of the Jewish communities of the time.