The Journal of the American Oriental Society, July 1st, 1998
Jaroslav Stetkevych's Muhammad and the Golden Bough explores the "mythic" traces surviving in an episode in the life of the Prophet Muhammad; much of the book's readership will applaud wholeheartedly its eclectic "reconstruction" of this Arabian myth. But the significance of the monograph may lie elsewhere - it will introduce many to that most intriguing of episodes, the unearthing of a golden bough at Mada in Salih in the course of Muhammad's campaign against Tabuk. The episode is a puzzling fragment. But it is the fragment's very nature that one may be led eventually to question, in a manner...
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