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Podcast: New Books in Medieval History
Episode: Rebecca Williams, âMuhammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Viewsâ (Routledge, 2013)
Description: Rebecca Williamsâ book Muhammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Views (Routledge, 2013) is one of the newest additions to the Routledge Studies in Classic Islam series. Despite the Qurâanic proclamation that the only âmiracleâ which served as proof of Muhammadâs propethood was the Qurâan itself, miracles and supernatural events have been ascribed to Muhammad in numerous Islamic literary and intellectual genres. Professor Williams, of the University of South Alabama, delivers a unique and fresh look at the supernatural in Islam.Restricting her analysis to the works of Qurâanic exegesis and the biography, she focuses on four events...