L’auteur

Harald Motzki, Harald Motzki est spécialiste d’islamologie (histoire sociale, juridique et religieuse). Il obtient son doctorat en islamologie en 1978 à l’Université de Bonn et son habilitation en 1989 à l’Université de Hambourg ; Il est aujourd’hui Professeur associé d’islamologie à l’Université de Nijmegen (Pays bas).

Presentation

This book deals with the controversial value of the sources on which the biography of Muhammad, the founder of Islam, is based. Discussions on this topic have been going on for more than a century but it has become especially debated during the last two decades.
This volume contains ten articles which are the outcome of an international colloquium on the issue. Part one of the book examines the development of the Muslim tradition concerning the life of Muhammad while the other part focuses on the historical reliability of the source material.
The volume reflects not only the most recent methodological developments in the study of the life of Muhammad but also the improvement of its material-basis due to sources which have only recently become available or which have been neglected.

Table des matières

Introduction
Harald Motzki

I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SIRA TRADITION

– The Life of Muhammad and the Islamic Self-Image
Uri Rubin
– Sira and Tafsir. Muhammad al-Kalbi on the Jews of Medina
Marco Schoeller
– Sira and the Question of Tradition
Adrien Leites
– Musa b. Uqba's Maghazi Gregor Schoeler -Sirat Ahl al-Kisa’ ’. Early Shii Sources on the Biography of the Prophet Maher Jarrar {{II. THE HISTORICAL RELIABILITY OF BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCE MATERIAL}} - Did the Quraysh Conclude a Treaty with the Ansar Prior to the Hijra? Michael Lecker - The Murder of Ibn Abi l-Huqayq: On the Origin and Reliability of some Maghazi-Reports Harald Motzki - The Historical Tradition about al-Hudaybiya. A Study ofUrwa b. al-Zubayr’s Account
Andreas Gorke
– The Earliest Christian Writings on Muhammad: An Appraisal
Robert G. Hoyland
– Muhammad in the Qur’an: Reading Scripture in the 21st Century
Andrew Rippin

Contributors
Index

(Source Brill)

Compte rendu

Recension par A.-L. de Prémare, BCAI, 18 (2002)

Extraits

"LES CONTRIBUTIONS AU COLLOQUE DE NIMÈGUE
ÉDITÉES PAR H. MOTZKI
Ces contributions sont réparties en deux sous-ensembles: I. Le développement de la tradition de la sîra (5 contributions); II. La fiabilité historique du matériel biographique source (5 contributions). Le ton dominant en est donné par l’introduction générale de H. Motzki, de l’Université de Nimègue, organisateur du colloque et éditeur des contributions (...)"