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E-book The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam : The Prophet Between Doctrine, Literature and Arts: Historical Legacies and Their Unfolding
The image of the Prophet as it was established in Muslim religious and historical tradition had, despite many critical objections, remained for a long time at the centre of historical reconstruction and dominated both positive and more critical accounts of the “Life of the Prophet”. But in recent decades this image has been questioned and overshadowed by other research attempts. These locate the origins of Islam and the emergence and development of the Qurʾān in the context of the multireligious culture of the Middle East in late antiquity, and try to break fresh critical ground in the methodological approach toward these early developments. The resulting revision of the basic framework of both the textual genesis and collection of the Qurʾān, of the his-tory of the early religious community from which Islam finally emerged, and of the life and role of the Prophet himself, puts great stress on the apocalyptic and eschatological dimensions of the early message. It assumes a redaction process of the Qurʾān which lasted until the end of the seventh century.3 In this new tableau of the emergence of Islam, the role of the Prophet appears more or less reduced to that of a shadowy military leader of an apocalyptic move-ment, which took on a specific religious shape only by its interactions with the different religious communities in the conquered regions of the Middle East.
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