Fred Donner on the History of Early Islām

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

We discuss what little we know and how much we don't know about the nature of the early ‘Believers' movement’, the nature and origins of the Qur'ān, the curious case of the so-called Constitution of Medinah, and what went on during the earliest decades of the Arab conquests. Fred Donner is our guide into unknown territory.