A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling religious writer Karen Armstrong.''Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to its fundamentals, without over-simplifying'' SUNDAY TIMES''One of our best living writers on religion'' FINANCIAL TIMES''Not just a sympathetic book that would dispel the misconceptions and misgivings of its western readers, but also a book that is of considerable importance to Muslims'' MUSLIM NEWSMost people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity.