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“This last report is particularly intriguing insofar as it implies that Muhammad received his call to prophethood not—as the most famous account would have it—atop Mount Hira occupied in prayerful meditation and acts of pious devotion but while shepherding flocks for wealthy Meccans.”
― Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
― Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
“History uses memory and its reconstructions of the past as a source, even an extraordinarily important source, but still just one source to be read and utilized in light of many others.”
― Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
― Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
“The geography of faith had begun to shift profoundly with Islam—a religion that brought with it a renewed, robust vision of an empire of faith. It would also then fall to al-Zuhrī to be the new empire’s most eloquent and skillful articulator of its Islamic vision of the translatio imperii with the prophetic authority of Muhammad and his community at its center—reaffirming that with new faith came new dominion.”
― Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
― Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
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