Remembering Muhammad.
In Islamic tradition Muhammad is remembered as the proper name of the Prophet, even if various hadīth include muhammad ('the praised-one') in a list of his honorary epithets. These traditions, however, led Aloys Sprenger to speculate in the nineteenth century that Muhammad was not the Prophet's birt...
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2011
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