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A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling religious writer Karen Armstrong.

Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity.

• Print length 288 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication date Aug. 10 2021
• Dimensions 13.3 x 2.2 x 19.7 cm
• ISBN-10 1842126083
• ISBN-13 978-1842126080
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Aug. 10 2021)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1842126083
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1842126080
• Item weight ‏ : ‎ 256 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.3 x 2.2 x 19.7 cm
• #165 in History of Islam
• #987 in Religious Biographies (Books)

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Karen armstrong.

Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous other books on religious affairs-including A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War, Islam, Buddha, and The Great Transformation-and two memoirs, Through the Narrow Gate and The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been translated into forty-five languages. She has addressed members of the U.S. Congress on three occasions; lectured to policy makers at the U.S. State Department; participated in the World Economic Forum in New York, Jordan, and Davos; addressed the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington and New York; is increasingly invited to speak in Muslim countries; and is now an ambassador for the UN Alliance of Civilizations. In February 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and is currently working with TED on a major international project to launch and propagate a Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public and crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, to be signed in the fall of 2009 by a thousand religious and secular leaders. She lives in London.

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Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

Karen armstrong. harperone, $23 (290pp) isbn 978-0-06-250014-4.

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When the Pope spoke of jihad, and when Danish cartoonists published caricatures of a violent prophet Muhammad, Karen Armstrong blamed "Islamophobia."

The author talks about her second biography on the prophet, entitled Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time and warns against what she calls the "myth of Islam as a chronically violent religion."

Karen Armstrong , Author of The Great Transformation: The Beginning of our Religious Traditions ; A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and Muhammad: A Prophet For Our Time

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Muhammad A Biography of the Prophet By Karen Armstrong. San Francisco: Harper, 1992, 290 pp.

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During the almost one thousand years of European obsession with Islam, only a few authors have tried to rise above their contemporaries by presenting a more balanced view of this religious ideology. Armstrong's main aim is to encourage "this more tolerant, compassionate, and courageous tradition" (p. 15). From the very beginning, it is apparent that this book is written with an unsurpassed empathy and that it contains a degree of dismay and resentment that the truth about the Prophet and Islam has been compromised and hidden by ethnocentric European writers inspired either by the Christian church and its missionaries or modem secularism. The main strength of the book lies in the fact that the author is not a run-of-the-mill orientalist With experience as a free-lance writer, commentator, and television documentary producer, Armstrong does not avoid the themes so dear to European critics of the Prophet, but deals with them directly. For instance, rather than rationalizing the Prophet's polygamy, ...

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The Man Who Inspired the World's Fastest-Growing Religion

Muhammad presents a fascinating portrait of the founder of a religion that continues to change the course of world history. Muhammad's story is more relevant than ever because it offers crucial insight into the true origins of an increasingly radicalized Islam. Countering those who dismiss Islam as fanatical and violent, Armstrong offers a clear, accessible, and balanced portrait of the central figure of one of the world's great religions.

• Part of series Eminent Lives
• Print length 256 pages
• Language English
• Publisher HarperOne
• Publication date August 28, 2007
• Dimensions 5.31 x 0.58 x 8 inches
• ISBN-10 0061155772
• ISBN-13 978-0061155772
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Karen Armstrong, author, scholar, and journalist, is among the world's foremost commentators on religious history and culture. Her books include the bestselling A History of God and The Battle for God , as well as Buddha and Islam: A Short History .

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperOne; Reprint edition (August 28, 2007)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061155772
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061155772
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.58 x 8 inches
• #9 in Muhammed in Islam
• #16 in History of Islam
• #227 in Religious Leader Biographies

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Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous other books on religious affairs-including A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War, Islam, Buddha, and The Great Transformation-and two memoirs, Through the Narrow Gate and The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been translated into forty-five languages. She has addressed members of the U.S. Congress on three occasions; lectured to policy makers at the U.S. State Department; participated in the World Economic Forum in New York, Jordan, and Davos; addressed the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington and New York; is increasingly invited to speak in Muslim countries; and is now an ambassador for the UN Alliance of Civilizations. In February 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and is currently working with TED on a major international project to launch and propagate a Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public and crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, to be signed in the fall of 2009 by a thousand religious and secular leaders. She lives in London.

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