''Muhammad'' () is a
secular
Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin ''saeculum'', "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion. Anything that does not have an explicit reference to religion, either negativ ...
biography of the
Islamic prophet written by prominent French
Marxist historian of Islam
Maxime Rodinson
Maxime Rodinson (26 January 1915 – 23 May 2004) was a French Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist. He was the son of a Russian- Polish clothing trader and his wife, who both were murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp. After stu ...
in 1961. It focuses on materialist conditions of emergence of Islam. In Egypt, in 1998, censorship controversies forced the
American University in Cairo to stop publishing the book.
See also
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List of biographies of Muhammad
This is a chronological listing of biographies of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, ranging from the earliest traditional writers to modern times.
Earliest biographers
The following is a list of the earliest known Hadith collectors who specialized ...
References
Biographies of Muhammad
Non-Islamic Islam studies literature
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