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Pakistani academic, Zafar Ali Qureshi, in his book, Prophet Muhammad and His Western Critics: A Critique of W. Montgomery Watt and Others has criticized Watt as having incorrectly portrayed the life of Muhammad in his works. Qureshi's book was praised by Turkish academic İbrahim Kalın. [10] French jurist Georges-Henri Bousquet has mocked Watt ...
Muhammad [a] (c. 570 – 8 June 632 CE) [b] was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam. [c] According to Islam, he was a prophet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets.
Joel Hayward, The Leadership of Muhammad (Swansea: Claritas Books, 2021) ISBN 978-180011-989-5. Mohamad Jebara, Muhammad the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2021) ISBN 978-1250239648. Joel Hayward, The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad and War (Swansea: Claritas Books, 2022) ISBN 978-1-8001198-0-2.
The life of Muhammad is known as the Sira and was lived in the full light of history. Everything he did and said was recorded. Everything he did and said was recorded. Because he could not read and write himself, he was constantly served by a group of 45 scribes who wrote down his sayings, instructions, and his activities.
The book can serve as an excellent reference on the history of Ali's caliphate "if one can see beyond his narrow interpretation of the sources". [ 10 ] According to Yasin Dutton , the author has a "deep familiarity" with the sources and has been able to "critique successfully" earlier historians Like Caetani, Wellhausen , and Vaglieri .
The San Francisco Book Review wrote that Hayward is a "celebrated historian and strategic studies scholar", called The Leadership of Muhammad a "ground breaking book", and awarded it five stars out of five. Reviewer Foluso Falaye described the book as "a great source of knowledge about Muhammad and the beginning of Islam."
The issue of succession following the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad is the central issue in the schisms that divided the early Muslim community in the first century of Islamic history into numerous schools and branches. The two most prominent branches that emerged from these divisions are Sunni and Shia branches of Islam.
Muhammad at Medina is a book about early Islam written by the non-Muslim Islamic scholar W. Montgomery Watt. Published at 418 pages by Oxford University Press in 1956, it is the sequel to Watt's 1953 volume, Muhammad at Mecca .