Introduction: What can a prophetic body do? -- Reading the prophetic body: genealogy, physiognomy, and witness -- Muhammad's heart: the modified body -- Bottling Muhammad: corporeal traces -- The sex of revelation: prophethood and gendered bodies -- Secreting baraka: Muhammad's …
"Knight approaches hadith and sira as important religio-cultural and literary phenomena in their own right. In rich detail, he lays out the immense variety of questions and depictions early followers produced regarding Muhammad's sacred power (baraka)-its boundaries, effects, an…
"Muhammad's Body introduces questions of embodiment and materiality to the study of the Prophet Muhammad. Analyzing classical Muslim literary representations of Muhammad's body as they emerge in Sunni hadith and sira from the eighth through the eleventh centuries CE, Michael Muh…
The body in Islamic culture
The concept of the body is of special importance in Islamic and Arab societies. Much of the daily interaction between peoples in these societies is related to the strict Islamic division of the universe into different spaces; the "feminine" and "masculine," the "pure" and the "p…