''Muhammad'' () is a
secular biography of the
Islamic prophet
Prophets in Islam ( ar, الأنبياء في الإسلام, translit=al-ʾAnbiyāʾ fī al-ʾIslām) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God's message on Earth and to serve as models of ideal human behaviour. Some prophets a ...
written by prominent French
Marxist historian of Islam
Maxime Rodinson in 1961. It focuses on materialist conditions of emergence of Islam. In Egypt, in 1998, censorship controversies forced the
American University in Cairo
The American University in Cairo (AUC; ar, الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, Al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning progr ...
to stop publishing the book.
See also
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List of biographies of Muhammad
References
Biographies of Muhammad
Non-Islamic Islam studies literature
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