Dibble opens with the geography of Arabia, then follows Muhammad from his early years in Mecca through his call as prophet, the hostility of the Quraysh, the flight to Medina and the wars that brought the peninsula under Islam. He writes in the ironic, debunking manner of 1920s biography, more interested in personality and drama than in reverence.
A period piece of Jazz Age biography whose irreverent tone reflects its Western author rather than Muslim tradition. Download the free EPUB.