The biggest problem facing scholars of the rise of Islam is identifying the
context in which the prophet worked. What was he reacting to, and why was the rest of Arabia so responsive to his message? We stand a good chance of making headway, for we are nowhere near having exploited to the full our three main types of evidence – the traditions associated with the prophet (primarily the
hadith), the Qur'an itself, and (a new source of enormous promise) archaeology.
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