Muhammad's Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage

by Michael Muhammad Knight

Book Overview

Muhammad's Body introduces questions of embodiment and materiality to the study of the Prophet Muhammad. Analyzing classical Muslim literary representations of Muhammad's body as they emerge in Sunni hadith and sira from the eighth through the eleventh centuries CE, Michael Muhammad Knight argues that early Muslims' theories and imaginings about Muhammad's body contributed in significant ways to the construction of prophetic masculinity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469658917
• ISBN13: 9781469658919
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"