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The Earliest Biographies of the Prophet and Their Authors
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15 January 2021

Josef Horovitz (1874-1931) wrote this classic monograph a century ago in two parts in German.
The translation was prepared by Marmaduke Pickthall (d. 1936). Lawrence I. Conrad, who has re-edited the text for this edition, presents a slightly corrected textual version, expanding and updating the notes and bibliography and adding a new introduction dealing with Horovitz's and other orientalists' work on early Islam in the early 20th century.
Horovitz deals with thirteen early scholars who transmitted traditions or compiled sira or maghazi works, such as Urwa b. al-Zubayr (d. ca. 713), Ibn Ishaq (d. 767) and al-Waqidi (d. 823).
HISTORY / Middle East / General, Islam, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern history
Lawrence Irvin Conrad is a British historian and scholar of Oriental studies, specialising in Middle Eastern studies..
1. Maghazi Authorities among the Tabi'un
2. The Early Medinans
3. The Students of al-Zuhri
4. Maghazi under the Early 'Abbasids
Bibliography
Index