He has participated in several international Islamic councils and conferences. He lectured for twelve years at Cairo University, and has served as Keeper of Oriental Manuscripts at the British Museum. About the Author(s) of Muhammad Martin Lings holds degrees from both Oxford and London University. It owes its freshness and directness of approach to the words of the men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. This is the definitive, objective biography of the Prophet, drawn from primary Arabic sources of the 8th and 9th centuries, and includes passages never before translated. It is estimated that there are now between 4 and 7 million Muslims in the U.S.
In 1990, after the book had attracted the attention of Azhar University, the author received a decoration from president Mubarak.Muhammad His Life Based on the Earliest Sources By (author) Martin Lings This is the first paperback edition of this important work, which sold 7,500 copies in the cloth edition • The Muslim population of the U.S. 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. The result is a book which will be read with equal enjoyment by those already familiar with Muhammads life and those coming to it for the first time. He has adopted a style which is at once extremely readable and reflects both the simplicity and grandeur of the story. Martin Lings has an unusual gift for narrative.
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 life of Muhammad is unlike any other. Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet in the English language.
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