The first Muslim:the story of Muhammad
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Riverhead Books,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | 2013. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | 320 p: map ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9781594487286 1594487286 |
Index Number: | B969 |
CLC: | B969 |
Call Number: | B969/H431 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-310) and index. Orphan -- Exile -- Leader. The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited-- and remade. Drawing on early eyewitness sources and on history, politics, religion, and psychology, she renders him as a man in full complexity and vitality. Hazleton follows the arc of Muhammad's rise from powerlessness to power, from anonymity to renown. |