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Muhammad : a biography of the prophet / Karen Armstrong.
LIBRA Special BP75 .A76 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Armstrong, Karen, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muḥammad, Prophet, -632.
- Muḥammad.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages : genealogical tables, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First HarperCollins paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.
- Summary:
- Now in paperback, from the acclaimed author of "Holy War" and "A History of God," a fresh, evenhanded biography of the founder of Islam, the religion that continues to have a dramatic effect on the world today.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Maps, genealogical charts
- Muhammad the enemy
- Muhammad the man of al-Llah
- Jahiliyah
- Revelation
- The Warner
- The Satanic verses
- Hijra : a new direction
- Holy war
- Holy peace
- Death of the prophet
- Notes
- Selected bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-280) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0062508865
- 9780062508867
- OCLC:
- 36233448
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