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  1. Lammens, Henri. "Les juifs de la Mecque à la veille de l'Hégire." Recherches de Sciences Religieuse 8 (1918): 145-193.
  2. Landau-Tasseron, Ella. "Processes of Redaction: The Case of the Tamîmite Delegation to the Prophet Muhammad." BSOAS 49 (1986): 255-270.
  3. Landau-Tasseron, E. "Unearthing a Pre-Islamic Arabian Prophet," JSAI 21 (1997): 42 - 61.
  4. Lecker, Michael. "Muhammad at Medina: A Geographical Approach." JSAI 6 (1985): 29-62.
  5. Lecker, M. "The Hudaybiyya Treaty and the Expedition against Khaybar." JSAI 5 (1984): 1-11.
  6. Lecker, M. "On the Markets of Medina(yathrib) in Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Times," JSAI 8(1986): 133-145.
  7. Lecker, M. "A Note on Early Marriage Between Qruashîs and Jewish Women," 1981
  8. Lecker, M. "The death of the Prophet Muhammad's father: Did Wâqidî invent some of the evidence?" Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morganlandischen Gesellschaft 145, 1(1995): 9-27.
  9. Lecker, M. ":Wâqidî's Account of the Status of the Jews of Medina: a Study of a Combined Report," JNES 54, 1 (1995): 15-32.
  10. Lecker, M. Abû Mâlik 'Abdullâh b. Sâm of Kinda, a Jewish Convert to Islam," Der Islam 71, 2 (1994): 280-282.
  11. Lecker, M. "Judaism Among Kinda and the Ridda." JAOS 115, 4 (1995): 635-650.
    • For a review of Lecker's methodology see, Hawting, G. R. "Review of The Banû Sulaym: A Contribution to the Study of Early Islam," by Michael Lecker. In BSOAS 54 (1991): 359-62.
  12. Leder, Stefan. "Authorship and Transmission in Unauthored Literature: The Akhbar Attributed to Haytham ibn `Adi." Oriens 31 (1988): 67-81.
  13. Little, Donald P. "Aspects of the Economic Policy of the Prophet Muhammad." In Zafar Nâme: Memorial volume of Felix Tauer. Edited by Rudolf Vesely and Eduard Gombar. Praha: Enigma Corporation, Ltd. 1996.
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  14. Mattock, J. N. "History and Fiction." Occasional Papers of the School of 'Abbâsid Studies, (1986): 80-97.
  15. Monroe, James T. "The Poetry of the Sîrah Literature." In Arabic Literature to the end of the Umayyad Period. Edited by A. F. L. Beeston, T. M. Johnstone, R. B. Serjeant, and G. R. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  16. Motzki, Harald. "The Prophet and the Cat: On Dating Mâlik's Muwatta' and Legal Traditions," JSAI 22 (1998):18 - 83.
  17. Motzki, H. The Biography of Muhammad. Leiden: Brill, 1999.
  18. Muir, William. The Life of Mahomet. London: Smith Elder & Co., 1877.
  19. Muranyi, Miklos. "Die Auslieferungsklausel des Vertrages von al-Hudaibiya und ihre Folgen." Arabica 23 (1976): 275-95.
  20. Muranyi, M. "Ibn Ishâq's Kitâb al-Magâzî in der Riwâya von Yûnus b. Bukayr: Bemerkungen zur frühen Überlieferungsgeschichte." JSAI 14 (1991): 214-76.
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  21. Nadwî, Sayyid Sulaymân. "Muhammad b. 'Umar al-Wâqidî." Maqalât-i-Sulaymân. Edited by S. Mu`în al-dîn Nadwî. A`zamgarh: Matba' Ma'ârif, 1968, pp. 111-40.
  22. Nadwî, S. S. "Response to A. Guillaume's Letter regarding the Trustworthiness of al-Wâqidî." Maqalât-i-Sulaymân. Edited by S. Mu'în al-dîn Nadwî. A`zamgarh: Matba' Ma'ârif, 2 (1968): 143-165.
  23. Newby, Gordon D. "The Sîrah as a source for Arabian Jewish History: Problems and Perspectives." JSAI 7 (1986): 121-138.
  24. Newby, G. D. "Observations about an Early Judeo-Arabic." Jewish Quarterly Review 61(1970 -71): 212-221.
  25. Newby, G. D. The Making of the Last Prophet: A Reconstruction of the Earliest Biography of Muhammad. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989.
  26. Newby, G. D. A History of the Jews of Arabia from Ancient Times to their Eclipse Under Islam. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.
    • For a review article see, Brinner, William M, Reuven Firestone, Ronald C. Kiener, and Steven Wasserstrom, with an Introduction by Marilyn R. Waldman. "Reviews of A History of the Jews of Arabia: From Ancient Times to their Eclipse Under Islam, and The Making of the Last Prophet: A Reconstruction of the Earliest Biography of Muhammad, by Gordon Darnell Newby." In Religious Studies Review. 18(1992): 179-89.
  27. Noth, Albrecht. Quellenkritische Studien zu Themen, Formen und Tendenzen frühislamischen Geschichts überlieferung. Teil 1, Themen und Formen. Bonn: Selbstverlag des orientalischen Seminars der Universität Bonn, 1973.
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  28. Peters, Frank. E. "The Quest for the Historical Muhammad." International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 23 (1991): 291-315.
  29. Peters, F. E. Muhammad and the Origins of IslamAlbany: SUNY Press, 1994.
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  30. Rahman, Hannah. "The Conflicts between the Prophet and the Opposition in Medina." Der Islam 42 (1985): 260-297.
  31. Rippin, Andrew. "Literary Analysis of Qur'ân, Tafsîr and Sîra." In Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies. Edited by R. C. Martin. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985, 151-163.
  32. Rippin, A. Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Vol 1. The Formative Period. London: Routledge, 1990.
  33. Robson, James. "Ibn Ishâq's Use of the Isnâd." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 38 (1955-56): 449-465.
  34. Rodinson, Maxime. "A Critical Survey of Modern Studies on Muhammad." In Studies on Islam. Edited by Merlin L. Swartz. Oxford; Oxford University Press. 1981.
  35. Rosenthal, Franz. A History of Muslim Historiography. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1968.
  36. Rosenthal, F. "The Influence of Biblical Tradition on Muslim Historiography," In Lewis and Holt, eds. Historians of the Middle East. London: Oxford Univesity Press, 1968, pp. 35-45.
  37. Royster, J. E. The Meaning of Muhammad for Muslims: A Phenomenological Study of Recurrent Images of the Prophet. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms. 1971.
  38. Royster, J. E. "The Study of Muhammad: A Survey of Approaches from the Perspective of the History and Phenomenology of Religion." MW 62 (1972): 49-70.
  39. Rubin, Uri. "Hanîfiyya and Ka`ba." JSAI 13 (1990): 85-112.
  40. Rubin, U. "The 'Constitution of Medina': Some Notes." Studia Islamica 42 (1985): 5-20.
  41. Rubin, U. "The Assassination of Ka`b b. al-Ashraf." Oriens 32 (1990): 65-71.
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  42. Sachau, Eduard. "Studien zur ältesten Geschichtsüberlieferung der Araber." Mitteilungen des Seminars für orientalische Sprachen 7 (1904): 154-196.
  43. Al-Samuk, Sadun Mahmud. "Die historischen Überlieferungen nach Ibn Ishâq." Ph. D. Diss. Frankfurt: 1978.
  44. Schacht, J. "A Revaluation of Islamic Tradition." JRAS (1949): 143-154.
  45. Schacht, J. "On Mûsâ b. 'Uqba's Kitâb al-Maghâzî." Acta Orientalia 21 (1950-53): 288-300.
  46. Schimmel, Annemarie. And Muhammad Is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety. North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
  47. Schoeler, Gregor. "Die Frage der Schriftlichen oder Mündlichen Überlieferung der Wissenschaften im frühen Islam." Der Islam 42 (1985): 201-230.
  48. Sellheim, Rudolf. "Prophet, Chalif und Geschichte. Die Muhammed- Biographie des Ibn Ishâq." Oriens18-19 (1967): 3-91.
  49. Serjeant, R. B. "The Constitution of Medina." Islamic Quarterly 8 (1964): 3- 16.
  50. Serjeant, R. B. "Haram and Hawtah: the Sacred Enclave in Arabia." In Mélanges Taha Husain. Edited by A. R. Badawi. Cairo: al-Maaref, 1962, pp. 41-58.
  51. Serjeant, R. B.. "The Sunnah Jâmi'ah, Pacts with the Yathrib Jews, and the Tahrîm of Yathrib: Analysis and Translation of the Documents Comprised in the so called 'Constitution of Medina'." BSOAS 41 (1978): 1-42.
  52. Serjeant, R. B.. "Early Arabic Prose." In Arabic Literature to the end of the Umayyad Period. Edited by A. F. L. Beeston, T. M. Johnstone, R. B. Serjeant, and G. R. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  53. Sezgin, Fuat. Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums. 9 Vols. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1967- in progress.
  54. Smith, Sidney. "Events in Arabia in the 6th Century A. D," BSOAS 16(1954): 425-68.
  55. Supplement to the Encyclopaedia of Islam. 1st. ed. Leiden: E. J. Brill. 1938. S. v. "Tabaqât," by Heffening.
  56. ________. S. v. "Ta'rîkh," by H. A. R. Gibb.
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  57. Al-Tabarî, Abû Ja'far Muhammad b. Jarîr. Ta'rîkh al-rusul wa'l-mulûk (Annales), Edited by M. J. de Goeje. 15 vols. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1879-1901.
  58. Al-Tabarî, Abû. General Introduction and From the Creation to the Flood. Edited and translated by Franz Rosenthal. Vol. 1, The History of al-Tabarî. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
  59. Al-Tabarî, Abû. Muhammad at Mecca. Edited and translated by W. M. Watt and M. V. McDonald. Vol. 6. The History of al-Tabarî. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.
    • For a review article see, Burton, John. Review of Muhammad at Mecca. Edited and translated by W. M. Watt and M. V. Mc Donald. Vol. 6, The History of al-Tabari. In BSOAS 53 (1990): 328-31.
  60. Al-Tabarî, Abû. The Foundation of the Community. Edited and translated by W. M. Watt and M. V. McDonald. Vol. 7, The History of al-Tabarî. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
  61. Al-Tabarî, Abû. The Last Years of the Prophet. Edited and translated by Ismail K. Poonawala. Vol. 9, The History of al-Tabarî. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.
  62. Tîbâwî, A. L. "Ibn Ishâq's Sîra, A critique of Guillaume's English Translation (The Life of Muhammad)." IQ 3 (1956): 196-214.
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  63. `Urwa b. al-Zubayr, Maghâzî Rasûl Allâh. Edited by M. M. A'zami. Riyad: Maktab-'Arab, 1981.
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  64. Vansina, Jan. Oral Tradition as a Source of History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
  65. Von Kremer. Wakidy's History of Muhammad's Campaigns. Calcutta: 1855.
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  66. Wansbrough, J. Quranic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
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  67. Wansborough, John. The Sectarian Milieu. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
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  68. Al- Wâqidî, Muhammad b. 'Umar. Kitâb al-maghâzî. Edited, with an introduction and preface by J. M. B. Jones. 3 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
  69. Watt, W. Montgomery. Muhammad at Mecca. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953.
  70. Watt, W. M. Muhammad at Medina. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
  71. Watt, W. M. Muhammad's Mecca: History in the Quran. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1988.
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  72. Watt, W. M. "The Reliability of Ibn Ishâq's Sources." In Early Islam: Collected Articles. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990.13-23.
  73. Watt, W. M. "Condemnation of the Jews of Banû Qurayzah." In Early Islam: Collected Articles. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990, pp. 1-12.
  74. Watt, W. M. "Muhammad." In Cambridge History of Islam. Edited by P. M. Holt and Bernard Lewis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970, 30- 56.
  75. Wellhausen, Julius. Muhammad in Medina. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1882.
  76. Wellhausen, J. "Muhammads Gemeindeordnung von Medina." In Skizzen und Vorarbeiten. 6 vols. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1889. 4: 65-83.
  77. Wellhausen, J. "Muhammad's Constitution of Medina." In A. J. Wensinck. Muhammad and the Jews of Medina. Edited and translated by W. Behn. Freiburg im Breisgau: K. Schwarz, 1975. 128-138.
  78. Wensinck, A. J. Mohammed en de Joden te Medina. Edited and translated by W. Behn as Muhammad and the Jews of Medina. Freiburg in Breisgau: K. Schwarz, 1975.
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  81. Yusuf Ali, A. The Holy Qur'ân: Text, Translation and Commentary. Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 1975.


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