The Grand Narrative — The Prophet Muhammad: The Revelations and the Unification of Arabia
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Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before we begin, as we did with our episode on the historical Jesus, let's be precise about the nature of this inquiry. We approach Muhammad's life the way historians approach any major religious founder: drawing on the earliest available textual traditions, comparing them where possible, and being honest about what can be established with confidence versus what rests primarily on later religious tradition. Our sources here are somewhat different in character from those for early Christianity — the Quran itself, Muslim tradition holds, was compiled remarkably close to Muhammad's own lifetime, while the detailed biographical material comes primarily from the sīra literature and hadith collections, compiled by later generations of Muslim scholars with their own rigorous, though religiously grounded, methods of source evaluation.
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