Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time

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The Man Who Inspired the World's Fastest-Growing Religion

Muhammad presents a fascinating portrait of the founder of a religion that continues to change the course of world history. Muhammad's story is more relevant than ever because it offers crucial insight into the true origins of an increasingly radicalized Islam. Countering those who dismiss Islam as fanatical and violent, Armstrong offers a clear, accessible, and balanced portrait of the central figure of one of the world's great religions.

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ISBN-13:	9780061155772
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	08/28/2007
Series:	Eminent Lives Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	127,126
Product dimensions:	8.08(w) x 5.36(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

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Karen Armstrong, author, scholar, and journalist, is among the world's foremost commentators on religious history and culture. Her books include the bestselling A History of God and The Battle for God, as well as Buddha and Islam: A Short History.

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Karen Armstrong’s sympathetic profile paints a portrait of a very human prophet — Wall Street Journal
A good glimpse of how the vast majority of the world’s Muslims understand their prophet. — New York Times
Respectful, knowledgeable, and, above all, readable. It succeeds because [Armstrong] brings Muhammad to life as a fully rounded human being. — The Economist

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Karen Armstrong’s sympathetic profile paints a portrait of a very human prophet

Wall Street Journal

A good glimpse of how the vast majority of the world’s Muslims understand their prophet.

New York Times

Respectful, knowledgeable, and, above all, readable. It succeeds because [Armstrong] brings Muhammad to life as a fully rounded human being.

The Economist

Karen Armstrong’s sympathetic profile paints a portrait of a very human prophet

Wall Street Journal

Muhammad (570-632) died 1,374 years ago, but his life, his teachings, and his legacy still remain vibrant topics for discussion and debate. Famed religion historian Karen Armstrong enhances the Eminent Lives series with this carefully researched biography of the final Prophet of Islam. She notes that although more historical data exists on his life than that of the founder of any other major faith, that plethora of information has not prevented innumerable misunderstandings, errors, and outright distortions. Muhammad: The Prophet for Our Time moves back in time, beyond deadly ideological wars, to the life of a merchant who became one of the most important men in history.

To glimpse how the vast majority of the world’s Muslims understand their prophet and their faith, Karen Armstrong’s short biography is a good place to start. The volume is part of a series called “Eminent Lives”: small profiles of big-name subjects by big-name authors.
Ms. Armstrong, best known for A History of God, is a scholar and a former nun with a genius for presenting religions as products of temporal forces — like geography, culture and economics — without minimizing the workings of transcendent spiritual forces.
— The New York Times

Laurie Goodstein

Anyone reflecting on the current world climate of intolerance would agree that it's impossible to have too many enlightening books on Muhammad and his spiritual legacy. Written for educated lay readers, this entry in the "Eminent Lives" series is a briefer post-9/11 update of Armstrong's insightful Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet (1991). Five fast-paced chapters cover Mecca, Jahiliyyah (time of ignorance), Hijrah (migration to Medina), Jihad, and Salam (peace). Readers of these pages cannot escape the genius of Muhammad and his aim for peace and compassion among nations and among Muslims themselves: "Muslim must never fight against Muslim." Armstrong makes a strong appeal to the nations and religions of the world "not merely [to] tolerate but to appreciate one another." Clearly, Muhammad is a prophet for our time, and inhabitants of this unstable planet must take his words to heart if our species is to survive. Recommended for all libraries.-Gary P. Gillum, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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