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Muḥammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Makings of the Last Prophet

Muḥammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Makings of the Last Prophet 102 Book Reviews Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Makings of the Last Prophet DAVID S. POWERS, 2009 [Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion] Philadelphia, Penn.: University of Pennsylvania Press xvi + 357 pp. US$65.00 (hardback) ISBN 9780812241785 David Powers’ book argues that the early Muslim community altered the consonan- tal Qurʾa¯nic text in order to integrate fully the doctrine that Muhammad was the final Abrahamic prophet, largely by amending a sequence of verses (4:12, 4:23, 4:176, 33:36) so as to clarify relationships between fathers and the wives of their natural and adopted sons. This meticulously argued book is underpinned by thoughtful, serious engagement with scriptural and documentary sources. Powers organises the work in three parts, which include a total of ten chapters, with three appendices providing supplementary material. The first part, “Fathers and Sons”, discusses the history of the trope of fathers and sons in Judaic and Christian sacred literature and history, adoption in the monotheist traditions and in the pre-Islamic Near East, and the concept of adoption in Islam. This is the shortest part of the book and provides essential background information. The second part, “From Sacred Legend to Sacred History”, moves this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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Taylor & Francis
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© 2014 Vika Gardner
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0950-3110
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10.1080/09503110.2014.878437
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102 Book Reviews Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Makings of the Last Prophet DAVID S. POWERS, 2009 [Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion] Philadelphia, Penn.: University of Pennsylvania Press xvi + 357 pp. US$65.00 (hardback) ISBN 9780812241785 David Powers’ book argues that the early Muslim community altered the consonan- tal Qurʾa¯nic text in order to integrate fully the doctrine that Muhammad was the final Abrahamic prophet, largely by amending a sequence of verses (4:12, 4:23, 4:176, 33:36) so as to clarify relationships between fathers and the wives of their natural and adopted sons. This meticulously argued book is underpinned by thoughtful, serious engagement with scriptural and documentary sources. Powers organises the work in three parts, which include a total of ten chapters, with three appendices providing supplementary material. The first part, “Fathers and Sons”, discusses the history of the trope of fathers and sons in Judaic and Christian sacred literature and history, adoption in the monotheist traditions and in the pre-Islamic Near East, and the concept of adoption in Islam. This is the shortest part of the book and provides essential background information. The second part, “From Sacred Legend to Sacred History”, moves this

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