THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE: NATURE, ORIGIN & TRANSFORMATIONS OF LOWER ORGANISMS

By PATRICIA ROBINSON

C O N T E N T S INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 “A PROPHET HAS APPEARED, COMING WITH THE SARACENS”: MUHAMMAD’S LEADERSHIP DURING THE CONQUEST OF PALESTINE ACCORDING TO SEVENTH- AND EIGHTH-CENTURY SOURCES CHAPTER 2 THE END OF MUHAMMAD’S LIFE IN EARLY ISLAMIC MEMORY: THE WITNESS OF THE S?RA TRADITION CHAPTER 3 THE BEGINNINGS OF ISLAM AND THE END OF DAYS: MUHAMMAD AS ESCHATOLOGICAL PROPHET CHAPTER 4 FROM BELIEVERS TO MUSLIMS, FROM JERUSALEM TO THE ?IJ?Z: CONFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND SACRED GEOGRAPHY IN EARLY ISLAM CONCLUSION: JESUS AND MUHAMMAD, THE APOSTLE AND THE APOSTLES NOTES