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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, Martin Lings
[*PB 362pp SIRAH Seerah Prophet Biography From Classical Classics, [ITS Islamic Text Scoiety]

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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, Martin Lings

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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
By Martin lings
Paperback Pages: 362
size: 234 x 156mm Published: 1991
ISBN: 0 946621 33 0
Published by The Islamic Text Society, Cambridge, UK

Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet in the English language. Martin Lings’ life of Muhammad is unlike any other. 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. Martin Lings has an unusual gift for narrative. He has adopted a style which is at once extremely readable and reflects both the simplicity and grandeur of the story. 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. This book 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. In 1990, after the book had attracted the attention of Azhar University, the author received a decoration from president Mubarak.

About the Author
Martin Lings born in Lancashire, England in 1909. Took an English degree at Oxford university
His interest in Islam and in Arabic took him to Egypt in 1939, and in the following year he was given a lectureship in Cairo University. In 1952 he returned to England and took a degree in Arabic at London University. From 1970-74 he was Keeper of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books at the British Museum (in 1973 his Department became part of the British Library) where he had been in special charge of the Qur’an manuscripts, amongst other treasures,
Dr. Martin Lings has been a Muslim for more than 50 years. He is also a Muslim scholar and has written various books in the fields of Traditional Islam and Sufism.
Martin Lings AKA Abu Bakr Siraj Ad-Din.

A Selection from the Table of Contents

Chapter 1:

The House of God

Chapter 7:

The Year of the Elephant

Chapter 14:

The Rebuilding of the Ka’bah

Chapter 31:

The Year of Sadness

Chapter 37:

The Hijrah

Chapter 43:

The Battle of Badr

Chapter 67:

A Clear Victory

Chapter 72:

The Lesser Pilgrimage and its Aftermath

Chapter 75:

The Conquest of Mecca

Chapter 83:

The Farewell Pilgrimage

Chapter 85:

The Succession and Burial

Map of Arabia. Quraysh (Genealogy Tree).

© The Islamic Texts Society 2002

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