The First Muslim
The Story of Muhammad

As a muslim I found the book an excellent analysis. The one thing the book did do is make me as a muslim look at the view of the Prophet which is force fed to us from birth, and which itself is never challenged. But the only reasonable thing a 21st century Muslim with a critical thinking faculty can......more

লেসলে হ্যাজলেটনের চাইতে সহজ-সরল এবং চমৎকার ভাষায় আর কোনো অমুসলমানের পক্ষে নবি মুহাম্মদ (স) এর জীবনী লেখা খুবই কঠিন হবে। এত সুন্দরভাবে এই ভদ্রমহিলা নবি মুহাম্মদকে নিয়ে লিখেছেন যে একবার পড়তে শুরু করলে শেষ না করে ওঠা কঠিন৷ বইটি লিখেছেন যিনি, তিনি ধর্মে মুসলমান নন। ইহুদি। এটা প্রচলিত অর্থে সিরাতে রাস......more

I made it a little past halfway with this book. It was well written. It's very readable, almost novel-like. I picked it up because I knew little to nothing about the life of Muhammad. Perhaps if I already had some knowledge of him, I would have finished it. But I was looking for a readable history o......more

I am a translator and I was offered to translate this book by my publisher into Turkish. Being an agnostic like the author herself I had very limited knowledge about Muslim religion and the prophet Mohammed. I obviously had to read the book before I decide whether to undertake the task or not, so I......more

I did not approach this book as a faithful. Instead I tried to be as objective as I could be and endeavored to gauge it purely on the basis of rigor, impartiality, authenticity and flair. I had heard some great things about it and welcomed an avowed agnostic doing an impressionistic account while os......more