Mohammed and the Rise of Islam

This classic biography is not a religious text designed to either celebrate or denigrate Islam. It looks at Mohammed as a towering figure of culture and politics a man who achieved the extraordinary: uniting disparate Arab tribes into a more cohesive whole. This book remains an important work for anyone wishing to understand the roots of one of the most intractable sociopolitical divides-between East and West Muslim and Christian-still haunting the world today. Author David S. Margoliouth (1858-1940) a professor of Arabic at Oxford University worked from primary Arabic texts and omitted all anecdotes that are obviously or most probably fabulous resulting in a clear-headed history of a highly contentious moment in time.