12:00 hrs. Sala Julián Ribera 1C Por Michael Lecker (Hebrew University, Jerusalén) The biography of the Prophet Muhammad is a central text for all Muslims and it seems to be gaining in significance. Some scholars have translated the biography or parts of lt, or have made a summary of it in a non-Arabic language. Other, more aspiring, scholars complained that its chronology is unreliable and that it is full of conflicts. Both claims are correct but irrelevant, because the biography is not a history book and its compilers were not historians. They were transmitters and editors who only worked...
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