Muhammad's body: Prophetic assemblages and the baraka network
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Michael Muhammad Knight
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Hammer, Juliane
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Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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260
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Boon, Jessica; Ernst, Carl W.; Lucas, Scott C.; Safi, Omid
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-01460-0
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Religious Studies
Body granting the degree
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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2016
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This dissertation examines representations of Muhammad in early Sunnī biographical (sira) literature and hadith collections, focusing on the ways in which these sources describe Muhammad's body. A significant gap persists between Islamic studies and contemporary theories of the body. Additionally, within Islamic studies engagements of gender and explorations of Muslim masculinities remain critically underdeveloped. This dissertation begins to address those gaps, employing contemporary theories of the body as a framework for exploring representations of Muhammad, thus contributing to studies of the hadith and biographical literature beyond the question of their historical authenticity. With attention to the Deleuzo-Guattarian question, "What can a body do?" it tracks change in the sources' representation of Muhammad's bodily boundaries, powers, and limits, exploring the ways in which his body enables connections to other bodies toward the achievement of a greater body with expanded powers, a prophetic assemblage.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Religion; Islamic Studies; Gender studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Abjection;Baraka;Body;Deleuze;Hadith;Muhammad