Meeting the Prophet

You cannot love what you do not know.

The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was born in Mecca in 570, received the first revelation in a cave at forty, and died in Medina at sixty-three. In the years between, he delivered a religion that reshaped history and a character that Muslims have tried to imitate for fourteen centuries.

Meeting the Prophet is a short introduction for the new Muslim. It tells the shape of the life the losses, the marriage, the revelation, the migration, the conquest, the farewell, the death. It describes the man himself how he looked, how he ate, how he slept, how he treated his family, how he laughed, how he grieved.

Not a scholarly biography. A first meeting.

Second edition, revised and reset. Book Seventeen of The New Muslim Companion a series of twenty books for the new Muslim, the returning Muslim, and the curious reader: plain English, no Arabic assumed, honest about where scholars differ.