Muhammad (biography Of The Prophet)

By (author) Karen Armstrong; By (author) Armstrong Karen
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A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling religious writer Karen Armstrong - ''One of our best living writers on religion'' FINANCIAL TIMES
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A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling religious writer Karen Armstrong.

''Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to its fundamentals, without over-simplifying'' SUNDAY TIMES

''One of our best living writers on religion'' FINANCIAL TIMES

''Not just a sympathetic book that would dispel the misconceptions and misgivings of its western readers, but also a book that is of considerable importance to Muslims'' MUSLIM NEWS

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.

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Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to its fundamentals, without over-simplifying
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Not just a sympathetic book that would dispel the misconceptions and misgivings of its western readers, but also a book that is of considerable importance to Muslims
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Respectful without being reverential, knowledgeable without being pedantic and, above all, readable
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This book is a significant help to understanding the religious experience of Islam and of the fascinating life of Muhammad in particular
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One of our best living writers on religion
Biographical note
Karen Armstrong spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun, an experience she recollected in her bestselling autobiography, THROUGH THE NARROW GATE. She is the author of the worldwide bestseller, A HISTORY OF GOD (which has now appeared in more than thirty languages), the acclaimed HISTORY OF JERUSALEM and, most recently, BUDDHA in the Weidenfeld & Nicolson Lives series. She is a teacher at the Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism and, in 1999, she received the Muslim Public Affairs Council Media Award.
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A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling religious writer Karen Armstrong.