Studies on the Life of Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam

Michael Lecker is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on pre- and early Islamic history, the biography of the Prophet Muḥammad and the Jews of the Arabian Peninsula.

1 Pre-Islamic Arabia / 2 The Monotheistic Cousins of Muḥammad’s Wife Khadīja / 3 Were the Ghassānids and the Byzantines behind Muḥammad’s hijra? / 4 Genealogy and Politics: Muḥammad’s Family Links with the Khazraj / 5 The Emigration of ʿUtba ibn Abī Waqqāṣ6 Did the Quraysh Conclude a Treaty with the Anṣār Prior to the hijra? / 7 Abū Mālik ʿAbdallāh b. Sām of Kinda, a Jewish Convert to Islam / 8 Were the Jewish Tribes in Arabia Clients of Arab Tribes? / 9 Did Muḥammad Conclude Treaties with the Jewish Tribes Naḍīr, Qurayẓa and Qaynuqāʿ? / 10 The Assassination of the Jewish Merchant Ibn Sunayna according to an Authentic Family Account / 11 Were there Female Relatives of the Prophet Muḥammad among the Besieged Qurayẓa? / 12 Wāqidī (d. 822) vs. Zuhrī (d. 742): The Fate of the Jewish Banū Abī l-Ḥuqayq / 13 Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ṣāḥib al-sīra/ṣāḥib al-maghāzī / 14 Muḥammad b. Isḥāq ṣāḥib al-maghāzī: Was his Grandfather Jewish? / 15 When did Ibn Isḥāq compose his maghāzī ? / 16 Notes about Censorship and Self-Censorship in the Biography of the Prophet Muḥammad / 17 The Jewish Reaction to the Islamic Conquests / 18 Wa-bi-Rādhān mā bi-Rādhān...: The landed Property of ʿAbdallāh ibn Masʿūd / 19 On the Burial of Martyrs in Islam / 20 The Futūḥ al-Shām of ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Rabīʿa al-Qudāmī