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Introduction:
F. Donner, Muhammad and the Believers. At the Origins of Islam (Cambridge, MA, 2010) esp. chs 1-
2
*S. Griffith, The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam
(Princeton, NJ, 2008) ch. 1
*J. D. McAuliffe (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’ān (Cambridge, 2006) chs 1-3
*S. Shoemaker, ‘Muhammad and the Qur’ān,’ in S. Fitzgerald (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Late
Antiquity (Oxford, 2012) 1078-1108