This volume comprises articles dealing with qur'anic and post-qur'anic aspects
of the Prophet Muhammad's image and religious environment. The pieces in the
first section analyse Muhammad's prophecy as reflected in the Qur'an and the
post-qur'anic sources of sira (Muhammad's biography), tafsir (Qur'an exegesis),
ta'rikh (historiography) and hadith (Muslim tradition). They reveal aspects of
the manner in which the post-qur'anic sources have elaborated on the relatively
modest qur'anic image of Muhammad for polemical needs as well as due to natural
admiration for the prophet of Islam. Articles in the second section study
Muhammad's prophetic experience. By concentrating on specific events in
Muhammad's life further light can be shed on