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Qur’an (Koran)

( ca. 610–632 )

Further Reading

Books

  • Asad, Muhammad. The Road to Mecca. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954.
  • Berg, Herbert, ed. Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003.
  • Brockopp, Jonathan E., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • Donner, Fred M. The Early Islamic Conquests. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981.
  • Fowden, Garth. Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
  • Goldziher, Ignác. Mohammed and Islam, trans. Kate Chambers Seelye. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1917.
  • Ibn Hisham, ‘Abd al-Malik. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • Kennedy, Hugh. “Islam.” In Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, ed. G. W. Bowersock, et al. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1999.
  • “Koran.” In Encyclopaedia Judaica, vol. 10. Jerusalem, Israel: Keter, 1971.
  • Kroll, Jerome, and Bernard Bachrach. The Mystic Mind: The Psychology of Medieval Mystics and Ascetics. New York: Routledge, 2005.
  • Lactantius. The Divine Institutes, trans. William Fletcher. In The Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. Buffalo, N.Y.: Christian Literature Company, 1886.
  • McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, ed. Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an. 6 vols. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2001–2006.
  • McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Parrinder, Geoffrey. Jesus in the Qur'an. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1965.
  • Peter, F. E. Muhammad and the Origins of Islam. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.
  • Sale, George, trans. The Koran: Commonly Called the Alkoran of Mohammed. New York: American Book Exchange, 1880.
  • Wansbrough, John. The Sectarian Milieu: Content and Composition of Islamic Salvation History. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1978.

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