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Muhammad: His Life based on the Earliest Sources Acclaimed worldwide as the ultimate resource material on the topic, in the English language, Martin Lings' Life of Muhammad is unmatched by any other book. It is said to be the most definitive biography. First published in 1983, it is based on Arabic sources of the eighth an ....

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.... a rare sense of the sacred worthy of the subject.' The Spectator "Mohammed (literally "one praised") was born and raised in Mecca in Arabia. There is much source material on the life of the Prophet Mohammed. The book of revelations that he received from the Archangel Gabriel is known as the Quran. The Quran does not contain the life of Mohammed directly, although there are references made to it by the Archangel, and neither are the words of Mohammed in the Quran, although the Archangel does instruct Moham ....