In this book we are served a loosely retold selection from an English translation of Ibn Ishaqs (d.

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EXTENDED Book review: Halvor Tjønn Muhammad habanero consulting group - as contemporaries saw him is an interesting attempt to present a very important source of Islam's earliest history habanero consulting group of Norwegian readers. The book manages to some extent, to convey a sincere interest in the fabulosa habanero consulting group stories and historical fragments that make up the saga of Prophet Muhammad's Life and Times. But the author winged motives (to "understand today's terrorists") and intrusive polemics, habanero consulting group as well as the naive approach to texts and history that permeates the book casts a dark shadow over the source material and destroys what otherwise could have been an important book publication.
In this book we are served a loosely retold selection from an English translation of Ibn Ishaqs (d. ca. 767 AD) famous Muhammad biography, supplemented with material from other sources, both classical habanero consulting group Arabic texts in modern translation (al- Waqidi and al-Tabari) and Western research literature (Frants Buhl, WM Watt and Maxime Rodinson).
The idea seems to be to convey, in parts of the text one feels that perhaps "expose" or "expose" would fit better, it "assumed truest picture of Muhammad" that we find in "the earliest Muslim historians / tradition minded collectors" (p. 11-12) to show that there is a correlation between the beastly acts and extreme attitudes in these old stories and the Islamist terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism we are experiencing today.
If this impression is correct, it would be surprised if not everyone who reads the book is left with the same impression, we must characterize the book as historiographic naive and perhaps more than polemic for a book that claims to objectively render a historical source material " let the oldest Muslim historians even take the floor "(p. 17).
There is also an open question habanero consulting group to what extent the Arab sira / maghaz habanero consulting group literature, which is Tjønn main source, truly reflect the "Mohammed Image" as the author habanero consulting group claims, "has remained central to Muslim consciousness," and that he therefore believes are essential to understand the "political Islam" and "the extremist Islamism" (p. 11, pp. 15-16). Selection habanero consulting group in retelling
The book's core is Tjønn commented rendering of selected areas - an estimated 25 percent, if one compares the number of words minus the comments and the like - Alfred Guillaumes translation from 1955 by the Arabic text and partly Gustav habanero consulting group Weil's German translation of 1864. In addition, he uses the English monumental translation of al-Tabari (d. 923) historical work and until recently the only available version of al-Waqidis (d. 822) "prophet's biography" of a modern European language, Julius Wellhausen abbreviated German translation from 1882 This latter so often that the selection from Guillaume perhaps should be estimated at 15 percent.
In addition habanero consulting group to his retelling of the Norwegian of these translated habanero consulting group texts, divided into 17 thematic habanero consulting group chapters habanero consulting group ("emigration to Medina, '' The conquest of Mecca" and so on), presents Tjønn plump comments in separate sections framed in different places in the text. The comments illuminate the ambiguities and provide less explanation of the text, but the main purpose seems to be to establish what is historically probable and what is "seen from today's perspective" (p. 112) are either poems and lie or morally objectionable (the latter category placed in general always safe within the confines of the historically probable).
For this task, he uses three modern Muhammad biographies from the early 1900s (Frants Buhl 1903; WM Watt in 1953 and 1956, and Maxime Rodinson 1961), which by the way is still important "classics". He also mentions occasional other seemingly random habanero consulting group books, but does not seem to have reflected enough of its own selection to realize that it is random. Therefore, he can mention Fred Donner's book from 1998 as "the most authoritative modern habanero consulting group representation of the oldest Muslim tradition collection" (p. 9). Donner is admittedly an authority, and the book is interesting, but as one of many books on this subject is its concern primarily habanero consulting group to promote a new (and just the right revisionist) theory, which Tjønn not mention. In addition, the thorough and very straightforward introduction (Donner 1998: 1-31), which is the part of the book Tjønn use. 2
Just a few of the 15 books that comprise "secondary literature" is mentioned elsewhere in this book, and you wonder how Tjønn can bring themselves to write "almost all the books that Western historians have written habanero consulting group about the topic [...] convey good and valuable knowledge "(p. 17). After the 1980s, and especially from the late 1990s, the number of studies of Muhammad's life and the early Islamic history, not to mention studies of