sirat – Ṭaḥāwī

A Critical Reading of Martin Lings’ Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Foreword to the first Swedish translation © GF Haddad 2005 Twenty-three years after its first publication in 1983, Muḥammad: his life based on the earliest sources by the late Abū Bakr Sirāj al-Dīn (Martin Lings, d. 2004) continues its lead as the best-written work of Prophetic biography in English and has now been translated intoContinueContinue reading “A Critical Reading of Martin Lings’ Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources”

Sirat Ibn Hisham – Abridged English Translation

asSalaamu Alaikum, Sirat ibn Hisham – Abridged English Translation Abridgment done by Abdus-Salam M. Harun. He writes in the Introduction: In this ‘abridgment’, l tried to extract elements from the original work to present it in a new form that is allowed for uninterrupted reading, while being careful about the original text so the readerContinueContinue reading “Sirat Ibn Hisham – Abridged English Translation”