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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 an important insight into the true origins of an increasingly more 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 crucial world’s great religions.
Muhammad used to be born in 570 CE, and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community, laying the foundations of a religion that changed the course of world history. There is more historical data on his life than on that of the founder of any other major faith, and yet his story is little known.
Karen Armstrong’s immaculately researched new biography of Muhammad will enable readers to consider the true origins and spirituality of a faith that may be all too ceaselessly misrepresented as cruel, intolerant, and inherently violent. An acclaimed authority on religious and non secular issues, Armstrong offers a balanced, in-depth portrait, revealing the man at the heart of Islam by dismantling centuries of misconceptions. Armstrong demonstrates that Muhammad’s life—a pivot point in history—has genuine relevance to the global crises we are facing today.
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