Prophecy and Power

by Marilyn Robinson Waldman

Book Overview

A posthumous work by the most rigorous comparativist in her generation of Islamic studies scholars, Prophecy and Power proposes a major innovative approach to both the Prophet Muhammad and the Noble Qur'an. By the end of the ninth century the Prophet Muhammad had emerged as an intercommunal norm beyond compare, and yet the very constructedness of this model of Muhammad allows historians of religion to see how the process itself requires us to undercut...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781790302
• ISBN13: 9781781790304
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"