Muhammad at Medina (book)

Muhammad at Medina is a book about Islam written by the non-Muslim Islamic scholar William Montgomery Watt. Oxford University Press, 1956. It is the sequel to Muhammad at Mecca.

Along with Muhammad at Mecca, Watt wrote a comprehensive history of the life of Muhammad and the origins of the Islamic community. He examined a vast mass of scholarly discussion, brought a new perspective and attempted to answer many questions that had hardly been raised in the past.

Contents

• I. The Provocation of Quraysh
  • 1. The Situation at the Hijrah
  • 2. The Earliest Expedition
  • 3. The First Fighting
  • 4. The Battle of Badr
  • 5. The Situation after Badr
• II. The Failure of the Meccan Ripost
  • 1. Muhammad prepares for the impending Struggle
  • 2. Meccan Reactions to Badr
  • 3. The Battle of Uhud
  • 4. The Rousing of the Nomads
  • 5. The Siege of Medina
• III. The Winning of the Meccans
  • 1. The Expeditions in the Year after the Siege
  • 2. The Expedition and Treaty of Al-Hudaybiyah
  • 3. After Al-Hudaybiyah
  • 4. Meccan Reactions to Muhammad's Successes
  • 5. The Submission of Mecca
  • 6. The Battle of Hunayn
  • 7. The Consolidation of Victory
• IV. The Unifying of the Arabs
  • 1. The Tribal System confronting Muhammad
  • 2. The Tribes to the West of Medina and Mecca
  • 3. The Tribes to the East of Medina and Mecca
  • 4. The Tribes to the North
  • 5. The Tribes to the South of Mecca
  • 6. The Tribes in the Rest of Arabia
  • 7. The Success of Muhammad's Policy
• V. The Internal Politics of Medina
  • 1. Social and Political Groupings before Muhammad
  • 2. Muhammad's Supporters
  • 3. The Muslim Opposition
• VI. Muhammad and the Jews
  • 1. The Jews of Yathrib
  • 2. The Jews at the Hijrah
  • 3. Muhammad's Attempts to Reconcile the Jews
  • 4. The Intellectual Attack on the Jews
  • 5. The Physical Attack on the Jews
  • 6. Conclusion
• VII. The Character of the Islamic State
  • 1. The Constitution of Medina
  • 2. The Position of Muhammad
  • 3. The Character of the Ummah
  • 4. Finance
• VIII. The Reform of the Social Structure
  • 1. Security of Life and Property
  • 2. Marriage and Family
  • 3. Inheritance
  • 4. Miscellaneous Reforms
  • 5. Conclusion
• IX. The New Religion
  • 1. The Religious Institutions of Islam
  • 2. Islam and Arab Paganism
  • 3. Islam and Christianity
• X. The Man and his Greatness
  • 1. Appearance and Manner
  • 2. The Alleged Moral Failures
  • 3. The Foundations of Greatness
• Excursus
  • A. Further Remarks on the Sources
  • B. List of Expeditions and Dates
  • C. Slaves and Freedman among the Emigrants at Badr
  • D. Muhammad's Letters to the Princes
  • E. "Those whose hearts are reconciled"
  • F. Texts of Selected Treaties
  • G. The Treaties with Dumat al-Jandal
  • H. List of Administrators sent out by Muhammad
  • I. Zakat and Sadaqah
  • J. Marriage and the Family in pre-Islamic times
  • K. The technical terms in Surahs 4.24/28, 5.5/7, and 24.33
  • L. Muhammad's Marriages
• Index

See also

• Muhammad in Medina

External links

• Online version

References

• Muhammad at Medina. (1956) Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-577307-1.