Islam : A Short History

Notes

1 BEGINNINGS (pages 3 to 37)

1. Jalal al-Din Suyuti, al-ifqan fi ulum al aqram in Maxime Rodinson,
   Mohammed (trans. Anne Carter, London, 1971), 74.


2. Muhammad ibn Ishaq, SimtRasul Allah (trans. and ed. A Guillaume,
   The Life of Muhammad, London, 1955), 1 58.


3. Quran 25:3; 29:17; 4447; 69:44. Quotations from the Quran are all
   taken from Muhammad Asad (trans.), The Message of the Quran,
   Gibraltar, 1980.


4. Quran 80:11.


5. Quran 2:129—32; 61:6.


6. Quran 2:256.


7. Quran 29:46.


8. Quran I'i'A—l.


9. Quran 741-5, 8-10; 88:21-2.


10. Muhammad's concubine Mariam, who was a Christian and not one
    of his wives, bore him a son, Ibrahim, who, to the Prophet's immense
    sorrow, died in infancy.


11. Quran 33:28—9.


12. Quran 33:35.


13. Quran 43.


14. Genesis 16; 18:18—20.


15. D. Sidersky, Les Origines dans les legendes musulmanes dans le Coran et
    dans les vies desprophetes (Paris, 193 3).


16. Quran 2:129-32; 3:58-62; 2:39.


17. Quran 6:159,161-2.