(RNS) — In his new book, 'Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait,' biographer Mohamad Jebara takes long-established sources and weaves them together for a fresh telling of a familiar story.

What inspired you to write The First Muslim? Basically, frustration! I’d read several biographies of Muhammad as background for my previous book, After the Prophet, but though they seemed to tell me a ...

We live at a time when the American public’s reaction to Islam can often be polarized and reflexive, a time with a desperate need for thoughtful information on this great religion and on its founder.

In my courses on early Islam and the life of Muhammad, I teach to the amazement of my students that there are few pre-modern historical figures that we know more about than we do about Muhammad. The ...

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The Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was one of the most influential men in human history — but there's little we can say about his life with historical certainty. The details of his life have ...

TEHRAN -- The Foundation for Increasing Islamic Awareness Among Foreign Communities in Saudi Arabia recently announced that it would soon publish a biography of Prophet Muhammad (S), the Persian ...

If a person is given a chance to examine the biography of Prophet Muhammad comprehensively from all aspects, while breaking free from the fetters of personal bias, he will definitely conclude that ...

Dr Sheikh Abdulwahab Al Triri giving the lecture on Friday. — Supplied photo Al Triri gave the message during his lecture on the ‘General aspects of Prophet Muhammad’s biography’ on Friday. The ...