Karen Armstrong

This vivid and detailed biography strips away centuries of distortion and myth and presents a balanced view of the man whose religion continues to dramatically affect the course of history.

Muhammad

A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling religious writer Karen Armstrong. Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity.

A Biography of the Prophet

Safiya 

I really enjoyed reading this book. While exposing the Doctrine of Islam ( which I re-discovered again), Armstrong referred to similar teachings in both Christianity and Judaism, and that made the book more interesting. She thoroughly scanned the Arabian context, and tried to show how revolutionary the Islam was to the Peninsula...
She mostly cited passages from Ibn Ishaq one of the first historians who documented the Prophet (ppbuh) life.
She depicted Islam marvellously (that's how it seemed to me), and demonstrated that : Ney ! Islam is not a sword religion, far than this it's a non violence religion and so on of the Westerners imaginative perceptions. I started doubting from where Ghandi had his whole idea about the Ashram and Satyagraha thing is it from the Umma ...?!
"Muhammad's prophetic career was a symbol, a theophany, which not only shows God's activity in the world, but illustrates the perfect human surrender to God"

Reiza H

Muhammad was born in 570 CE, and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community, laying the foundations of a religion that changed the course of world history. There is more historical data on his life than on that of the founder of any other major faith, and yet his story is little known. Karen Armstrong's immaculately researched new biography of Muhammad will enable readers to understand the true origins and spirituality of a faith that is all too often misrepresented as cruel, intolerant, and inherently violent. An acclaimed authority on religious and spiritual issues, Armstrong offers a balanced, in-depth portrait, revealing the man at the heart of Islam by dismantling centuries of misconceptions. Armstrong demonstrates that Muhammad's life—a pivot point in history—has genuine relevance to the global crises we face today.

Muhammad

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