Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Jews and Arabs Before Islam: Idol worship in pre-Islamic Medina (Yathrib); A note on early marriage links between Qurashis and Jewish women; Zayd b. Thabit, ’a Jew with two sidelocks’: Judaism and literacy in pre-Islamic Medina (Yathrib); ’Amr ibn Hazm al-Ansari and Qur’an 2, 256: ’No compulsion is there in religion’; Hudhayfa b. al-Yaman and ’Ammar b. Yasir, Jewish converts to Islam; Muhammad at Medina: Yahud/’uhud: a variant reading in the story of the ’Aqaba meeting; Waqidi’s account on the status of the Jews of Medina: a study of a combined report; Muhammad at Medina: a geographical approach; On the markets of Medina (Yathrib) in pre-Islamic and early Islamic times; On Arabs of the Banu Kilab executed together with the Jewish Banu Qurayza; The Hudaybiyya-treaty and the expedition against Khaybar; The bewitching of the Prophet Muhammad by the Jews: a note à propos ’Abd al-Malik b. Habib’s Mukhtasar fi l-tibb; Tribes in the Yemen: The conversion of Himyar to Judaism and the Jewish Banu Hadl of Medina; Judaism among Kinda and the ridda of Kinda; Kinda on the eve of Islam and during the ridda; Arabic and Islamic Literature: Biographical notes on Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri; The death of the Prophet Mahammad’s father: did Waqidi invent some of the evidence?; Biographical notes on Abu ’Ubayda Ma’mar b. al-Muthanna; Addenda et corrigenda; Index.