5/24/2023 0 Comments Mohamad jebara author![]() ![]() Jebara argues that Muhammad regarded the Arabian society of his day as one suffering from ‘willful stagnation’. ![]() Mohamad Jebara’s biography aims for somewhere between. Most accounts of the Prophet, whether malignant or hagiographic, have been stilted and one-dimensional. Since, after the Quran, the Prophet’s utterances and actions have been taken as an indispensable guide for living, the way his story is told is crucial to understanding his message. By contrast, Islamic scholars have presented the Prophet as the transmitter of divine revelation and the embodiment of the ideal man. ![]() Many non-Muslim writers have seen him as Satanic, lascivious or fraudulent: Dante placed him deep in Hell, Voltaire called him a fanatic and one evangelist described him as ‘a demon-obsessed pedophile’. Westerners have long been fascinated by the Prophet Muhammad, but it is a fascination that has veered, at times, towards horror. Section from a Qur'an Manuscript, c.1300. Marginalia indicate that this Qur'an once belonged to the library of a ribat (hostel) in the holy city of Medina accommodating Moroccan residents. ![]()
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