"This is easily the best biography of the Prophet in the English language." Dr. Victor Danner (Indiana University) "Lings provides a wealth of detail on the life of Muhammad, the time and place of many Koranic revelations, and the foundation of Islam, all based exclusively on 8th- and 9th-century Arabic biographical sources and collections of the sayings attributed to Muhammad. General readers will find a well-written, straightforward chronological narrative; Muslim readers will appreciate the favorable treatment of Muhammad; while specialists will find a faithful and convenient rendering of source material." Joseph Gardner, California State Univ. Lib., Northridge Library Journal "An enthralling story that combines impeccable scholarship with a rare sense of the sacred worthy of his subject." The Spectator "Muhammad is a true work of art, as enthralling as the best novels with the difference that this is not fiction but fact." The Islamic Quarterly. |
