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 Scholler
Sira and the Question of Tradition
Adrien Leites
Musa b. `Uqba’s Maghazi Gregor Schoeler
`Sirat Ahl al-Kisa’ ’. Early Shi`i 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 of `Urwa 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 bio graphique source (5 contributions). Le ton dominant en est donné par l’introduction générale de H. Motzki, de l’Univer- sité de Nimègue, organisateur du colloque et éditeur des contributions (…)"