For those interested in Islam one way or another it is mesmerising.’ ‘Despite the vastness of the subject, this biography makes an easy and absorbing reading for anyone interested in religion as such. The late Dr Martin Lings, formerly Keeper of Oriental Manuscript in the British Museum and the British Library, is the author of three works on Islamic mysticism, A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century, What is Sufism?, and The Book of Certainty. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources was given an award by the government of Pakistan, and selected as the best biography of the Prophet in English at the National Seerat Conference in Islamabad in 1983. The result is a book which will be read with equal enjoyment by those already familiar with Muhammad’s life and those coming to it for the first time. He has adopted a style which is at once extremely readable and reflects both the simplicity and grandeur of the story. Martin Lings has an unusual gift for narrative. Based on Arabic sources of the eighth and ninth centuries, of which some important passages are translated here for the first time, it owes the freshness and directness of its approach to the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet Muhammad in the English language, Martin Lings’ Muhammad: His Life Based to the Earliest Sources is unlike any other.
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