The Quest of the Historical Muhammad
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8967453 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F E Peters (0000-0002-8998-0062, New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 291-315 |
| Publication date | 1991-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743800056312 |
| OpenAlex | W2119986717 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 34 |
Writing in 1962 Stephen Neill listed twelve of what he regarded as “positive achievements of New Testament studies” over the past century. 1 As an affirmation of progress in a notoriously difficult field of investigation, they make satisfying and even cheerful reading for the historian. Who was Jesus of Nazareth? What was his message? Why was he put to death? Why did his few followers become, in effect, the nucleus of the powerful and widespread community called Christianity? These were the enormously difficult questions that had begun to be posed in a critical-historical way in the mid-19th century, and some of the answers Bishop Neill discerned, though by no means final, represented ground gained and truths won. Neill's widely read book was revised in 1988, and though his optimism was here and there tempered by what had been said and thought in the twenty-five years since the first edition, 2 there was still good reason to think that historians were by and large on the right track in pursuing what Albert Schweitzer described in 1906 as “the quest of the historical Jesus.” 3
Art · Epistemology · Historical Jesus · Literature · New Testament · Optimism · Reading (process · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy
Conclusion
The late Sasanian Near East
Modern approaches to early Islamic history
The New Cambridge History of Islam
Introduction. Epigraphy, the Qurʾān, and the Religious Landscape of Arabia
Freudian analysis of the Prophet Muhammad’s historical life and his early community
Le Coran silencieux et le Coran parlant
Writing the Biography of the Prophet Muhammad
Reflections on the work of John Wansbrough
Exégèse et théologie de l'islam shi'ite
The historical Muhammad and the historical Jesus
Concepts and Methods in the Study of the Qur'ān
Who Defines Islam? Critical Perspectives on Islamic Studies
The Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence
Historians of the Middle East.
Quranic Studies
Hagarism
And Muhammad is his messenger
Slaves on Horses
The Maghāzī literature
Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period
Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of the Qur’ān
The Origin of Islam in Its Christian Environment
The Šïite Qur'ān »
Les Origines de l'Islam et le Christianisme
Grundriss der Arabischen Philologie
Prophet, Chalif und Geschichte. Die Muhammed-Biographie des Ibn Ishaq
Studies in Jahiliyya and Early Islam
The Origins of the Muslim Descriptions of the Jāhilī Meccan Sanctuary
Bell's Introduction to the Quran
Jerusalem and Mecca
Hagarism. The Making of the Islamic World
The Life of Muhammad and the Sociological Problem of the Beginnings of Islam
Al-taḥannuth
| Unique citing works | 13 |
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| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2024 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |