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The Monotheistic Cousins of Muḥammad’s Wife Khadīja

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Abstract:

Muḥammad’s first wife Khadīja bint Khuwaylid belonged to a clan of the Quraysh tribe called Asad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā. This biographical detail is crucial in the analysis of the literary evidence about her and her family. Khadīja had a well-known paternal cousin who was Christian, namely Waraqa ibn Nawfal. Another paternal cousin of hers who was Christian, ʿUthmān ibn al-Ḥuwayrith, attempted on the eve of the hijra to gain control of Mecca. The Christian faith of the cousins belongs in the discussion of Muḥammad’s spiritual environment and his preparation for the Call to prophethood. After all, Muḥammad and Khadīja, both of whom were descendants of Quṣayy ibn Kilāb, were married for a quarter of a century and he must have known her family very well. During the long marriage she was his only wife and she gave birth to all of his children with the exception of Ibrāhīm whose mother was a Copt slave girl. A third paternal cousin of Khadīja who is of interest for us here was the son of a Jewish slave girl who belonged to Muḥammad’s uncle ʿAbbās.[1]

Keywords: Monotheism in pre-Islamic Arabia; Byzantium (and the Arabs); life of Muḥammad; Khadīja (Prophet’s wife); Christianity in Arabia
Published Online: 2017-10-14
Published in Print: 2017-10-26

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https://doi.org/10.1515/islam-2017-0024
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
Monotheism in pre-Islamic Arabia; Byzantium (and the Arabs); life of Muḥammad; Khadīja (Prophet’s wife); Christianity in Arabia

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  4. Descent and Inheritance in Zoroastrian and Shiʿite Law: A Preliminary Study
  5. The Dēnkard Against its Islamic Discourse
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  9. Avicenna’s Shifāʾ(Sufficientia): in Defense of Medieval Latin Translators
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  16. Michelina Di Cesare, The Pseudo-Historical Image of the Prophet Muḥammad in Medieval Latin Literature: A Repertory. (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients 26), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, IX u. 541 S., ISBN 987-3-11-026382-4.
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