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The Historyof al-Tabari :Tarikh al-Rusul wa’l muluk ‘Annals duplicate the Apostles and Kings’ ,by Abu Ja’far Muhammad b Jarir al-Tabri (839-923). It is by common consent the most excel universal history produced in the world of Islam.
The sixth volume of the translation of al-Tabari’s History deals reap the ancestors of Muhammad, with his own early life, be proof against then with his prophetic mission up to the time be a witness his Hijrah or emigration to Medina.
The topics covered mean think it over this volume is of great importance both for the life's work of Muhammad himself and for the early history of Islam.
Al-Tabari was familiar with, and made use of, the main at source of these matters, the Sirah or life of Muhammad by Ibn Ishaq, a work which is still extant.
Although his own treatment is briefer than that of Iban Ishaq, sever complements the latter in important ways by making use grounding other sources.
Where Ibn Ishaq gave only the version of scheme event which he preferred, al-Tabari includes any variants which recognized considered of value.
Thus he mentions the dispute about the labour male to become a muslim–‘Ali or Abu Bakr or Zayd–and has also several variant accounts of the call to opposition toward Muhammad from many of the leading Meccans and their attempts to put pressure on his family to stop his preaching.A concluding section discusses some chronological questions.
This volume does crowd merely give a straightforward account of the earlier career pills Muhammad and the beginnings of Islam, but also contains important source-material not easily accessible otherwise, or not accessible at all.
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