The Life of Muḥammad

Guillaume, The Life of Muḥammad, 1955, and partial trans. by Edward Rehatsek as edited by Michael Edwardes, The Life of Muhammad Apostle of Allah, 1964). This extensive biography covers Muḥammad’s genealogy and birth, the beginning of his mission and of the revelation of the Qurʾān, his…

…his classic recension of the sīrah, or life, of Muhammad, composed half a century earlier by Ibn Isḥāq. As in the early Christian church, these were not merely dogmatic issues. They were rooted in the way ordinary Muslims lived, just as affection for a divine Christ had become popular sentiment…