@article{434496,
      recid = {434496},
      author = {Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd al-Malik, and Ibn Isḥāq, Muḥammad, and  Guillaume, Alfred,},
      title = {The life of Muhammad : a translation of Isḥāq's Sīrat  rasūl Allāh /},
      publisher = {Oxford University Press,},
      address = {Karachi ;},
      pages = {xlvii, 813 ;},
      year = {2001},
      note = {Originally published: London : Oxford University Press,  1955.},
      abstract = {Sirat Rasul Allah (Life of the Messenger of God) or  al-Sirat al-Nabawiyah (Prophetic biography) is the Arabic  term used for the various traditional Muslim biographies of  Muhammad, from which most historical information about his  life and the early period of Islam is derived. Ibn Ishaq's  Sirat Rasul Allah is the earliest surviving traditional  biography, and was written just over 100 years after  Muhammad's death. It survives in the later editions of Ibn  Hisham and al-Tabari. Professor Guillaume's translation of  the Sira of Ibn Iss-Haq is now reissued. The translator  used Ibn Hisham's abridgement and also included many  additions and variants found in the writings of early  authors. The book thus presents in English practically all  that is known of the life of the Prophet. In the  introduction, the translator discusses the character of the  Sira in the light of the opinion of early Arabian scholars,  noting especially the difficulties of the poetry. As the  earliest monument of Arabian prose literature, the Sira  remains a work of the first importance.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/434496},
}