Did Muhammad Exist

Robert Spencer's revised and expanded inquiry examines what the earliest surviving records, inscriptions and manuscripts can tell historians about the origins of Islam. The book is framed around historical method: how source material from the distant past is dated, weighed and interpreted, and why a minority of specialists treat the early documentary record as too thin to settle the matter. Its arguments are contested and belong to a wider academic debate, so the text is best read alongside other scholarship rather than on its own. What buyers should know: • Revised and expanded edition of Spencer's original study • Discussion of manuscripts, inscriptions and archaeological findings • A focus on how historians assess evidence, not on devotional narrative • Presents one contested position within an ongoing scholarly argument Intended for students, researchers and general readers who follow debates in religious history and the study of ancient civilisations, stocked in English at Boipoka.