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Did Muhammad Exist? An Academic Response to a Popular Question

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The last two decades have seen a proliferation of publications variously questioning or outright denying the historical existence of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Although such views have gained practically no traction amongst academic specialists, they have attracted a considerable popular following, above all on the internet. The academic response to this popular challenge has been … [Read more…]

The New Historiography of Islamic Origins: A Review of Some Recent Trends in the Field

For many years, secular scholarship on Islamic origins and the first Islamic century was characterised by a relatively uncritical acceptance of 9th- and 10th-Century CE Islamic literary sources at face value and, consequently, a relatively uncritical acceptance of the conventional Islamic origins-narrative that predominates therein. In the context of the field of Islamic origins, the … [Read more…]