The Origins of Islam - 6.1 The Sira as Context for the Quran

REFERENCES IN THE DESCRIPTION BELOW

The Quran is typically understood in the light of the life of Muhammad. However, his turns out to be a circular approach as the biography of Muhammad was constructed in order to explain the Quran. We therefor have to look at it in reverse. The biography of Muhammad has to be understood in the light of the Quran.

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References for this episode:

Dequin, Raymond "Der frühe abbasidische Koran"'. In: Die Entstehung einer Weltreligion VI: Vom umayadischen Christentum zum abbasidischen Islam. Inârah Vol. 10. 2021,
pp. 146–233.

Reynolds, Gabriel Said. The Emergence of Islam: Classical traditions in contemporary perspective. Fortress Press, 2012.

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The "Origin of Islam" series is intended to provide a big-picture look at how Islam started, where it came from, how it evolved and how we ended up with the religion we know of today. I'm introducing the historical critical method as it's applied to the Quran and paint a new narrative based on primary evidence and linguistic analysis.
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