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IBN ISHAQ [Mahommed ibn Ishaq See also:Abu 'Abdallah] (d. 768)  , Arabic historian, lived in See also:Medina, where he interested himself to such an extent in the details of the See also:Prophet's See also:life that he was attacked by those to whom his See also:work seemed to have a rationalistic tendency . He consequently See also:left Medina in 733, and went to See also:Alexandria, then to See also:Kufa and See also:Hira, and finally to See also:Bagdad, where the See also:caliph Mansur provided him with the means of See also:writing his See also:great work . This was the Life of the Apostle of See also:God, which is now lost and is known to us only in the recension of See also:Ibn Hisham (q.v.) . The work has been attacked by Arabian writers (as in the Fihrist) as untrustworthy, and it seems clear that he introduced forged verses (cf . See also:Journal of the See also:German See also:Oriental Society, xiv . 288 sqq.) . It remains, however, one of the most important See also:works of the See also:age . (G . W .

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