{"id":442,"date":"2024-01-20T06:56:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T06:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rahs-open-lid.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2024-02-09T04:56:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T04:56:38","slug":"the-history-of-al-tabari-volume-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rahs-open-lid.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/20\/the-history-of-al-tabari-volume-8\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of al-Tabari Volume 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

The History of al-Tabari Volume VIII: The Victory of Islam<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Victory of Islam
Volume VIII
Translated by Michael Fishbein<\/p>\n

This volume covers the history of the Muslim community and the biography of Mu\u1e25ammad in the middle Medinan years. It begins with the unsuccessful last Meccan attack on Medina, known as the battle of the Trench.<\/p>\n

Events following this battle show the gradual collapse of Meccan resistance to Islam. The next year, when Mu\u1e25ammad set out on pilgrimage to Mecca, the Meccans at first blocked the road, but eventually a ten-year truce was negotiated at al-\u1e24udaybiyah, with Mu\u1e25ammad agreeing to postpone his pilgrimage until the following year. The Treaty of al-\u1e24udaybiyah was followed by a series of Muslim expeditions, climaxing in the important conquest of Khaybar. In the following year Mu\u1e25ammad made the so-called Pilgrimage of Fulfillment unopposed.<\/p>\n

Al-\u1e6cabar\u012b’s account emphasizes Islam’s expanding geographical horizon during this period. Soon after the Treaty of al-Hudaybiyah, Mu\u1e25ammad is said to have sent letters to six foreign rulers inviting them to become Muslims. Another example of this expanding horizon was the unsuccessful expedition to Mu’tah in Jordan.<\/p>\n

Shortly afterward the Treaty of al-\u1e24udaybiyah broke down, and Mu\u1e25ammad marched on Mecca. The Meccans capitulated, and Mu\u1e25ammad entered the city on his own terms. He treated the city leniently, and most of the Meccan oligarchy swore allegiance to him as Muslims.<\/p>\n

Two events in the personal life of Mu\u1e25ammad during this period caused controversy in the community. Mu\u1e25ammad fell in love with and married Zaynab bint. Ja\u1e25sh, the divorced wife of his adopted son Zayd. Because of Mu\u1e25ammad’s scruples, the marriage took place only after a Qur’anic revelation permitting believers to marry the divorced wives of their adopted sons. In the Affair of the Lie, accusations against Mu\u1e25ammad’s young wife \u02bf\u0100\u02beishah were exploited by various factions in the community and in Mu\u1e25ammad’s household. In the end, a Qur’anic revelation proclaimed \u02bf\u0100\u02beishah’s innocence and the culpability of the rumormongers.<\/p>\n

This volume of al-\u1e6cabar\u012b’s History<\/i> records the collapse of Meccan resistance to Islam, the triumphant return of Mu\u1e25ammad to his native city, the conversion to Islam of the Meccan oligarchy, and the community’s successful weathering of a number of potentially embarrassing events in Mu\u1e25ammad’s private life.<\/p>\n

SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies
Said Amir Arlomand , Editor
The State University of New York Press<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You can purchase it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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