Narrating Muḥammad's Night Journey
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Narrating Muḥammad's Night Journey

Tracing the Development of the Ibn ʿAbbās Ascension Discourse

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Narrating Muḥammad's Night Journey

Tracing the Development of the Ibn ʿAbbās Ascension Discourse

About this book

Discusses the historical development of the well-loved story of the Prophet Muhammad's night journey to the divine realm and back again.

This book provides an exhaustive examination of the historical development of a key story in the life of Mu?ammad, the tale told of his journey to the divine realm and back. It shows how in the early centuries of the Islamic community, both Sunn? and Sh?'? Muslims appropriated this fascinating story and interpreted it to suit their own ends. In particular, the book traces the development of a critical and influential strand of this rich ascension literature ascribed to one of Mu?ammad's famous companions, the scholar known as Ibn ?Abb?s. Frederick S. Colby demonstrates that this version of the tale originated in the early period and spread throughout the Islamic world, affecting how people from Spain to Afghanistan came to think about Mu?ammad and his legacy. Colby also includes translations of richly textured ascension narratives that have never before appeared in English.

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Table of contents

  1. NARRATING MUHAMMAD’S NIGHT JOURNEY
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  5. ABBREVIATIONS
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. 1. MUHAMMAD’S NIGHT JOURNEYIN THE QURAN
  8. 2. ORALITY AND THE PRIMITIVE VERSION OF THE IBN ABBĀS ASCENSION NARRATIVE
  9. 3. EARLY HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF MUHAMMAD’S JOURNEY
  10. 4. PROTO-SHĪĪ NARRATIVES OF HEAVENLY ASCENT
  11. 5. CANONICAL SUNNĪ HADĪTH REPORTS ON MUHAMMAD’S JOURNEY
  12. 6. THE USE AND APPROPRIATION OF THE IBN ABBĀS DISCOURSE IN COMMENTARIES
  13. 7. CONTESTING THE PRIMITIVE VERSION IN NISHAPUR
  14. 8. BAKRĪ’S TOTAL AND COMPLETE IBN ABBĀS DISCOURSE
  15. 9. THE CIRCULATION AND DIFFUSION OF BAKRĪ’S VERSIONS
  16. CONCLUSION
  17. Appendix A: TRANSLATION OF THEPRIMITIVE VERSION
  18. Appendix B: BAKRĪ’S “TOTAL AND COMPLETE” ASCENSION
  19. GLOSSARY: KEY THEMES AND TROPES IN THE IBN ABBĀS ASCENSION NARRATIVES
  20. NOTES
  21. WORKS CITED
  22. INDEX