Muhammad (TRIH ep 60)
622 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the life of Muhammad and the problems historians face reconstructing early Islam. They outline the traditional narrative—Muhammad's life in Mecca, revelations via Gabriel, the Hijra to Yathrib/Medina, the establishment of a community/state, and the subsequent Arab conquests—and then probe the sources: late narrative biographies (Ibn Ishaq redacted by Ibn Hisham) and contemporaneous non-Muslim references.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 622
- Reign of Justinian I (527)
- Muhammad (570)
- Hijra (622)
- Tang dynasty (618)
- Arab conquest of the Maghreb (647)
- Muhammad's first revelation (610)
- Death of Muhammad (632)
- Battle of Yarmouk (636)
- Hagia Sophia (532)
- Fall of the Sasanian Empire (651)