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100	1		_aMichael Muhammad Knight
245	1	0	_aMuhammad's Body: _bBaraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage
264		1	_aChapel Hill: _bThe University of North Carolina Press, _c2020
300			_axi, 196 p., _c25 cm
490	1		_aIslamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: What can a prophetic body do? -- Reading the prophetic body: genealogy, physiognomy, and witness -- Muhammad's heart: the modified body -- Bottling Muhammad: corporeal traces -- The sex of revelation: prophethood and gendered bodies -- Secreting baraka: Muhammad's body after Muhammad -- Conclusions: The Nabi without organs (NwO).
520			_a"Knight approaches hadith and sira as important religio-cultural and literary phenomena in their own right. In rich detail, he lays out the immense variety of questions and depictions early followers produced regarding Muhammad's sacred power (baraka)-its boundaries, effects, and limits. Drawing on insights from contemporary theory about the body, he shows how changing representations of the Prophet's body helped to legitimatize certain types of people or individuals as religious authorities, while marginalizing or delegitimizing others. For some Sunni Muslims, Knight concludes, claims of religious authority today continue to be connected to ideas about Muhammad's body"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aHuman body _xSocial aspects _zIslamic countries
650		0	_aHuman body _xReligious aspects _xIslam
830		0	_aIslamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
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