The Constitution of Medina: Muhammad's First Legal Document, Michael Lecker's 2004 study from Darwin Press, is a scholarly examination of the early Islamic document often called the Constitution of Medina, by a specialist in early Islamic history. Its strength is close philological and historical engagement with the document's early Arabic textual tradition. Its limit is that the document's precise date, unity and even its historicity as a single instrument remain genuinely debated among scholars, a debate the book itself engages rather than one this atlas should treat as settled by this source alone.
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Michael Lecker's The Constitution of Medina, Darwin Press, 2004, the top tier reflecting close philological and historical engagement with the document's early Arabic textual tradition by a specialist in early Islamic history. The document's precise date, unity and even its historicity as a single instrument remain genuinely debated among scholars, a debate the book itself engages rather than one this atlas treats as settled. NotesScholarly study of the Constitution of Medina as Muhammad's first legal document, Darwin Press, 2004.
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AuthorMichael Lecker
PublisherDarwin Press
Publication Year2004
Source Typeacademic monograph
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Religious Legal Instruments, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
- Spread Events, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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9Religious Legal Instruments
Scholarly debate
1Religious Legal Instruments
General References
2Religious Legal Instruments
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