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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

701–800

The Eighth Century

1 work

c. 767; surviving in Ibn Hisham's edition, c. 833

Arabic

The Life of the Messenger of God

Sirat Rasul Allah

Ibn Ishaq, in the recension of Ibn Hisham · c. 704 – 767

The earliest biography of Muhammad. Christians appear throughout: the monk Bahira who recognises the boy's prophethood, the Negus of Abyssinia who shelters the first emigrants and weeps at the recitation about Jesus and Mary, and the delegation from Najran who dispute the Trinity with him.

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