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Title: Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman by William Montgomery Watt ISBN: 0-19-881078-4 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1974 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent shorter scholarly biography
Comment: Most readers probably won't have the patience to slog through Watt's two bigger volumes, Muhammad At Mecca and Muhammad At Medina. This slimbooks is a good compromise, and an excellent introduction to Western scholarship on the subject. Unlike later, more radical historians like Wansbrough and Crone, Watt sifts through the early Muslim accounts and accepts most of them as being historically reliable.
Rating: 1
Summary: awful
Comment: this book is providing unneccesary info about islam that is false and very unacceptable.. especially page 17 when he writes
"The modern Westerner has no difficulty in showing how Muhammad may have been mistaken." it is
biased
and totally not reflecting history but showing a great deal of propaganda..
Rating: 5
Summary: *The* Portrait of Muhammad
Comment: If you're looking to gain an understanding of the life of Muhammad, grab this book. Watt presents a prose description of Muhammad's life, backed by sound and comprehensive study. It is actually enjoyable reading, almost like a story, yet completely historically accurate. (Or as much as we can be.) Watt does not make either extreme mistake of simply accepting the traditions of the Hadith or the Qur'an as absolute truth; or of looking only at Western denigrations of Islam. Rather, he appears to recognize historical truths in the Qur'anic traditions, and in Western and Eastern scholarship. If you've been trying to learn about Islam and have spent time looking over the Qur'an, this is *the* book to turn to get that background on Muhammad and "flesh" him out. Watt shows a human, beyond the traditions and myths, that changed his world, and then the rest of the planet.
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Title: Mohammed : The Man and His Faith by Tor Andrae ISBN: 0486411362 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 06 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings ISBN: 0892811706 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: September, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Mohammedanism: An Historical Survey by Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen, Sir, Gibb ISBN: 0195002458 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1969 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet by Karen Armstrong ISBN: 0062508865 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 10 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization by Marshall G. S. Hodgson ISBN: 0226346838 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: February, 1977 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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