Parution: Aomar Hannouz, Le Cycle de ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib. Restauration, sacrifice et naissance prophétique dans la Sīra d’Ibn Ishạq, Leiden, Brill, 2024
This book aims to demonstrate that the accounts that feature Muḥammad’s grandfather in Ibn Isḥāq’s Sīra are the product of narrative engineering. Through a narrative sequence in which ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib is the hero, several intriguing episodes...