Muḥammad and the Golden Bough

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Muḥammad and the Golden Bough is written by Jaroslav Stetkevych and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253332087 (ISBN 10) and 9780253332080 (ISBN 13).

The book dissects the intriguing Arab-Islamic myth built around Muhammad's unearthing of a "golden bough" from the grave of the last survivor of an ancient Arab people, the Thamud, who, according to the myth, were destroyed by a divine scourge for their iniquity. In the myth the episode of the slaying of the she-camel of the prophet Salih, which precipitates the downfall of the Thamud, is symbolically linked with Muhammad, the discoverer of the golden bough.