First Muslim The Story of Muhammad

Name: First Muslim The Story of Muhammad
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ISBN: 9781594632303

ISBN-10: 1594632308

ISBN-13: 9781594632303

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Authors: Lesley Hazleton

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The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited--and remade. Muhammad's was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his name, the intensely dramatic story of the prophet of Islam is not well known. In The First Muslim , Lesley Hazleton brings him vibrantly to life. Drawing on early eyewitness sources and on history, politics, religion, and psychology, she renders him as a man in full, in all his complexity and vitality. Hazleton's account follows the arc of Muhammad's rise from powerlessness to power, from anonymity to renown, from insignificance to lasting significance. How did a child shunted to the margins end…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/4/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Lesley Hazleton reported on the Middle East from Jerusalem for more than a dozen years, and has written for Time, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and Harper's, among other publications. Her last book, After the Prophet, was a finalist for the PEN-USA book Award. Hazleton lives in Seattle.