8.16: Links to Primary Sources
Ancient Accounts of Arabia 430 BCE – 550 CE
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/a...nt/arabia1.asp
Ibn Ishaq (d. c. 773 CE): Selections from the Life of Muhammad
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/s...mmadi-sira.asp
The Prophet Muhammad: Last Sermon
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/s...uhm-sermon.asp
Muhammad Speaks of Allah
www.mircea-eliade.com/from-pr...o-zen/040.html
Muhammad’s Call
www.mircea-eliade.com/from-pr...o-zen/231.html
Muhammad is the Messenger of God
www.mircea-eliade.com/from-pr...o-zen/232.html
Muhammad Proclaims the Prescriptions of Islam
www.mircea-eliade.com/from-pr...o-zen/122.html
The Sunnah, (traditions of the Prophet Muhammad), excerpts
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/s...nnah-horne.asp
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058 – 1111 CE): The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/s.../alghazali.asp
The Battle of Badr, 624 CE
http://web.archive.org/web/199801191...m/battleof.htm
Al-Baladhuri: The Battle of The Yarmuk (636 CE) and After
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/source/yarmuk.asp
Accounts of the Arab Conquest of Egypt, 642 CE
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/s...gypt-conq2.asp
Yakut: Baghdad under the Abbasids, c. 1000 CE
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/s...000baghdad.asp
Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masu’di (Masoudi) (c. 895? – 957 CE): The Book of Golden Meadows, c. 940 CE
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/source/masoudi.asp
The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor story from the Thousand and One Nights
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/lang1k1/tale15.htm
Ibn Rushd (Averroës) (1126 – 1198 CE): Religion & Philosophy, c. 1190 CE.
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/s...90averroes.asp
Firdausi: The Epic of Kings, c. 1000 CE
http://classics.mit.edu/Ferdowsi/kings.html
Sa’di (1184 – 1292 CE): Gulistan, 1258 CE