Uri Rubin is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, Israel

• Contents: Preface; Part I Muhammad's Prophetic Image: Muhammad and the Qur'an; The Quar'anic idea of prophets and prophethood; Review of G. Lüling, Die Wiederentdeckung des Propheten Muhammad; Pre-existence and light: aspects of the concept of Nur Muhammad; Muhammad the exorcist: aspects of Islamic-Jewish polemics; The shrouded messenger: on the interpretation of al-muzzammil and al-muddaththir. Part II Muhammad's Prophetic Experience: Muhammed's night journey (isra) to al-masjid al-aqsa: aspects of the earliest origins of the Islamic sanctity of Jerusalem; The life of Muhammad and the Qur'an: the case of Muhammed's hijra. Part III Muhammed's Arabia: Abraha; Hanifiyya and Ka'ba: an inquiry into the Arabian pre-Islamic background of din Ibrahim; Between Arabia and the Holy Land: a Mecca-Jerusalem axis of sanctity; The hands of Abu Lahab and the gazelle of the Ka'ba; Quraysh and their winter and summer journey: on the interpretation of Sura 106; Morning and evening prayers in early Islam; On the Arabian origins of the Qur'an: the case of al-furqan; Indexes.

'Overall, this collection of Rubin's articles is a useful resource for the study of the life of the Prophet and the Qur'an ... One added benefit of this collection is its thorough index, which is a great boon considering the wealth of information in this volume.' Der Islam 'By looking at pre-Islamic and post-Qurʾanic sources and in some cases juxtaposing Islamic and Jewish sources, Rubin offers a new reading of the Islamic material and makes a major contribution to the field of Islamic studies and the biography of Muhammad.' Al-Masaq