''Muhammad'' is a 1961 biography of the
Islamic prophet
Prophets in Islam () are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God's message on Earth and serve as models of ideal human behaviour. Some prophets are categorized as messengers (; sing. , ), those who transmit divine revelation, mos ...
written by French historian
Maxime Rodinson. 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
References
Biographies of Muhammad
Non-Islamic Islam studies literature
NYRB Classics
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