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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

by Martin Lings (Author)

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    Paperback 1983

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Synopsis

Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet in the English language. Martin Lings' life of Muhammad is unlike any other. Based on Arabic sources of the eighth and ninth centuries, of which some important passages are translated here for the first time, it owes the freshness and directness of its approach to the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. Martin Lings has an unusual gift for narrative. He has adopted a style which is at once extremely readable and reflects both the simplicity and grandeur of the story. The result is a book which will be read with equal enjoyment by those already familiar with Muhammad's life and those coming to it for the first time. This book was given an award by the government of Pakistan, and selected as the best biography of the Prophet in English at the National Seerat Conference in Islamabad in 1983. In 1990, after the book had attracted the attention of Azhar University, the author received a decoration from President Mubarak.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 362
 Edition: 3
 Publisher: The Islamic Texts Society
Published: 01 Jan 1983
ISBN 10: 0946621330
ISBN 13: 9780946621330

Media Reviews
Despite the vastness of the subject, this biography makes an easy and absorbing reading for anyone interested in religion as such. For those interested in Islam one way or another it is mesmerising. ---S. H. Nasr, George Washington University.--- An enthralling story that combines impeccable scholarship with a rare sense of the sacred worthy of his subject. ---The Spectator.--- Before the appearance of this book, Western languages lacked almost entirely a comprehensive and authentic account of the life of the Prophet Muhammad... Lings has produced a superb narrative that in its sobriety and dignity of style, and its scrupulous and exhaustive fidelity to authentic and reliable sources, constitutes a major addition to Islamic literature in English. Highly recommended. ---Hamid Alhar, Religious Studies Review.--- This is easily the best biography of the Prophet in the English language. ---Dr. Victor Danner, Indiana University.--- 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.
Author Bio
Dr Martin Lings (d. 2005), formerly Keeper of Oriental Manuscript at the British Museum and the British Library, is the author of A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century , What is Sufism? , The Book of Certainty , Sufi Poems: A Mediaeval Anthology , and The Holy Qur'an: Translations of Selected Verses , all published by the Islamic Texts Society.