{"product_id":"muhammad-paperback-1","title":"Muhammad - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaxime Rodinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnne Carter\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eRobert Irwin\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic secular history of the prophet Muhammad that vividly recreates the fascinating time in which Islam was born.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaxime Rodinson, both a maverick Marxist and a distinguished professor at the Sorbonne, first published his biography of Muhammad in 1960. The book, a classic in its field, has been widely read ever since. Rodinson, though deeply versed in scholarly studies of the Prophet, does not seek to add to it here but to introduce Muhammad, first of all, as \"a man of flesh and blood\" who led a life of extraordinary drama and shaped history as few others have. Equally, he seeks to lay out an understanding of Muhammad's legacy and Islam as what he called an ideological movement, similar to the universalist religions of Christianity and Buddhism as well as the secular movement of Marxism, but possessing a singular commitment to \"the deeply ingrained idea that Islam offers not only a path to salvation but (for many, above all) the ideal of a just society to be realized on earth.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRodinson's book begins by introducing the specific land and the larger world into which Muhammad was born and the development of his prophetic calling. It then follows the steps of his career and the way his leadership gave birth to a religion and a state. A final chapter considers the world as Islam has transformed it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaxime Rodinson\u003c\/b\u003e (1915-2004) was a Marxist historian and sociologist who specialized in Islam and the Arab world. He was for many years a professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne and, after working several years in Syria and Lebanon, supervised the Muslim section of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Among his works are \u003ci\u003eIslam and Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMarxism and the Muslim World\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eCult, Ghetto, and State: The Persistence of the Jewish Question\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Carter\u003c\/b\u003e has translated various books from the French, including works by Michel Tournier, Charles Perrault, Zoé Oldenbourg, Pierre Mendès-France, Juliette Benzoni, Philippe Jullian, Pierre Goubert, and François Mauriac. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Irwin\u003c\/b\u003e is the Middle East editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of many books. His tenth novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Runes Have Been Cast\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published in 2021.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47286037020921,"sku":"9781681374925","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/blVsTWNZcnRVNXhoRkRVWG5QSnk3QT09_fe7a85fd-f807-4a7b-ac80-be3d7ba03b19.webp?v=1769102418","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/muhammad-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}