Muslims, Jews, Christians and Pagans

Michael Lecker retired from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 2019. He has published extensively on pre- and early Islamic history, the biography of the Prophet Muḥammad and the Jews of the Arabian Peninsula. He is interested in prosopography. In his work, he also examines the potential contributions of cartographic representations and genealogical data to the scholarly investigation of early Islamic historiography. His previous Variorum volumes were published in 1998, 2005 and 2024

• Acknowledgements Preface List of Abbreviations List of MapsPart 1 Pre-Islamic IdolsChapter 1On the idols of the Arabsal-Maqrīzī, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, IV, Section 2: The Idols of the Arabs, Leiden: Brill, 2022, Introduction, 1—41Chapter 2Wadd, the weaponed idol of Dūmat al-Jandal and the quṣṣāṣI. Sachet and C.J. Robin (éds.), Dieux et déesses d’Arabie: images et représentations, Paris: De Boccard, 2012, 131—38Chapter 3Idol worship in pre-Islamic YamāmaI. Gajda, F. Briquel-Chatonnet and D. Aigle (éds.), Arabie/Arabies : volume offert à Christian Robin, Paris: Geuthner, 2023, 569—82Part 2 Muḥammad at MedinaChapter 4Lost towns: Zuhra and YathribJ. Schiettecatte and C.J. Robin (éds.), L’Arabie à la veille de l’Islam: bilan clinique, Paris: de Boccard, 2009, 29—35Chapter 5The houses of Khālid ibn al-Walīd and ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ near the Prophet’s MosqueO. Peleg-Barkat et alii (eds.), Between the Sea and the Desert: On Kings, Nomads, Cities and Monks. Essays in Honor of Joseph Patrich, Tsemach: Ostracon, 2019, 67—73Chapter 6Glimpses of Muḥammad’s Medinan decadeJ.E. Brockopp (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Muhammad, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 61—79Part 3 Jews and Christians in Early IslamChapter 7The Jews of northern Arabia in early IslamP.I. Lieberman (ed.), Cambridge History of Judaism, vol. 5: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 255—93Chapter 8The Exilarch’s damsE. Bareket, Y. Erder and M. Polliack (eds.), Yad Moshe: Studies in the History of the Jews in Muslim Lands in Memory of Moshe Gil, Tel Aviv University, 2018, 15—26 [Hebrew]Chapter 9Tora and Qurʾān in the practice of Abū l-Jald, a Judaeo-Muslim preacher and akhbārī from Baṣra (d. ca. 100/718)M. Frenkel and P.I. Lieberman (eds.), ‘An Inspired Man’: Studies in Judeo-Arabic Culture Dedicated to the Memory of Joshua Blau, Leiden: Brill, 2024, 168—86Chapter 10The itinerant Judaeo-Muslim preacher Abū Rayḥāna and his daughter, Muḥammad’s concubine RayḥānaJournal of the American Oriental Society 144 (2024), 585—604Chapter 11Najrān Inc.: The Najrānī exiles in Iraq, Syria and Baḥrayn from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb to Hārūn al-RashīdJ. Beaucamp, F. Briquel-Chatonnet and C.J. Robin (éds.), Juifs et chrétiens en Arabie aux Ve et VIe siècles: regards croisés sur les sources, Paris: Association des amis du Centre de recherche d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2010, 293—302Sources quoted more than once Index