Contents: Preface; Jews and Arabs Before Islam: Idol worship in pre-Islamic Medina (Yathrib); A note on early marriage links between Qurashis and Jewish women; Zayd b. Thabit, ¿a Jew with two sidelocks¿: Judaism and literacy in pre-Islamic Medina (Yathrib); ¿Amr ibn Hazm al-Ansari and Qur¿an 2, 256: ¿No compulsion is there in religion¿; Hudhayfa b. al-Yaman and ¿Ammar b. Yasir, Jewish converts to Islam; Muhammad at Medina: Yahud/¿uhud: a variant reading in the story of the ¿Aqaba meeting; Waqidi¿s account on the status of the Jews of Medina: a study of a combined report; Muhammad at Medina: a geographical approach; On the markets of Medina (Yathrib) in pre-Islamic and early Islamic times; On Arabs of the Banu Kilab executed together with the Jewish Banu Qurayza; The Hudaybiyya-treaty and the expedition against Khaybar; The bewitching of the Prophet Muhammad by the Jews: a note à propos ¿Abd al-Malik b. Habib¿s Mukhtasar fi l-tibb; Tribes in the Yemen: The conversion of Himyar to Judaism and the Jewish Banu Hadl of Medina; Judaism among Kinda and the ridda of Kinda; Kinda on the eve of Islam and during the ridda; Arabic and Islamic Literature: Biographical notes on Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri; The death of the Prophet Mahammad¿s father: did Waqidi invent some of the evidence?; Biographical notes on Abu ¿Ubayda Ma¿mar b. al-Muthanna; Addenda et corrigenda; Index.