Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Muhammad's prophetic image. Muhammad and the Qur'ān ; The Quar'ānic idea of prophets and prophethood ; Review of G. Lüling, Die Wiederentdeckung des Propheten Muhammad ; Pre-existence and light : aspects of the concept of Nūr Muhammad ; Muhammad the exorcist : aspects of Islamic-Jewish polemics ; The shrouded messenger : on the interpretation of al-muzzammil and al-muddaththir -- Muhammad's prophetic experience. Muhammad's night journey (isrā') to al-masjid al-aqsā : aspects of the earliest origins of the Islamic sanctity of Jerusalem ; The life of Muhammad and the Qur'ān : the case of Muhammad's hijira -- Muhammad's Arabia. Abraha ; Hanīfiyya and Ka'ba : an inquiry into the Arabian pre-Islamic background of dīn Ibrāhīm ; Between Arabia and the Holy Land : a Mecca-Jerusalem axis of sanctity ; The hands of Abū Lahab and the gazelle of the Ka'ba ; Quraysh and their winter and summer journey : on the interpretation of Sūra 106 ; Morning and evening prayers in early Islam ; On the Arabian origins of the Qur'ān : the case of al-furqān.