Muhammad
by Maxime Rodinson
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A definitive and fascinating introduction to the life, ideas, and impact of the founder of Islam. Maxime Robinson's Muhammad has long been regarded as one of the touchstones of scholarship on the founder of Islam. Thirty years after first being published in English, it remains the definitive introduction to the Prophet's life. Drawing on wide-ranging scholarship and imaginative insight into the Prophet's personality, family, background, and wider society, Rodinson's Muhammad offers a vivid show more account of how he spread the word of Islam, created a sect and state, and defeated his enemies, establishing the first great Muslim military power, a power which was soon to control territory stretching all the way from the Pyrenees to the borders of China. For anyone who wants to understand the historical roots of one of the world's great religions, Rodinson's Muhammad provides the ideal guide to a fascinating and timely subject. show lessTags
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REALLY strong biography. Approaches the subject with a materialist/Marxist lens, which I really appreciate in religious or classical studies. As a result, one leaves feeling like they can inveigh on Islamic topics in a more informed and relatively unprejudiced way, even when talking about the more controversial elements of the prophet’s life, such as his marriage to Aisha or massacres of Jewish tribes. This book gave me a lot of context for understanding people group relationships in the Arabian peninsula, as well as early religion formation.
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Maxime Rodinson (1915-2004) was a French Marxist historian, sociologist and a professor at the renowned Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris
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- Canonical title
- Muhammad
- Original publication date
- 1961 (original French) (original French); 1980 (English: Carter) (English: Carter)
- People/Characters
- Muhammad (Prophet)
- Original language
- French
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 297.63 — Religion Other religions Islam Islamic Leaders and Structures The Prophet Muhammad
- LCC
- BP75.13 .R613 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc. Islam. Bahai Faith. Theosophy, etc. Biography Muammad, Prophet, d. 632
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- (3.50)
- Languages
- 11 — Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 33
- ASINs
- 6
