Are there any good books that provide a biography about Mohammed?

Question

not necessarily from a religious perspective but fairly secular. what sort of bloke was he, did he have kids, what was his family like. was he a good or bad person

Answer 1

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074896/

This is a movie called "The Message", which I found to be very good. I showed it to my "Comparative Cultures" high school class and they enjoyed it a lot. I heard a lot of comments about how it was like "The Ten Commandments" or "Ben Hur", and presented a religious history in an exciting way. It's interesting how you never see the character of Mohammed, because it's not correct to show a physical representation of him. The camera shoots from his viewpoint, or shows his shadow while he is off-screen. I heard that an identical movie was made for the Arab audience with well-known Arab stars.

Answer 2

There's a book by Karen Armstrong titled The Prophet.
It's a biography of Mohammed, and it's a good one.

Answer 3

http://www.amazon.com

I find one book that looks interesting at the above link... It's called "The Days of Mohammed: A Biography" by Anna May Wilson. The 'new' price is $11.66, the 'new and used' price is 'from $8.92.' There are 27 books in the new and used section.

Luck--

Answer 4

Youth
Mohamed birth (probably 571 years April 21) his father had died. Mohamed's family can be said to be a middle-level families. His grandfather Abdullah care of him. His grandfather was a famous local Hashemite a former tribal chiefs (belonging to the ancient tribal clan Levin). Because then people think that the climate adverse Mecca, Mohammed, and his family will be entrusted to a grazing YOU tribes, such Mohamed grew up in the desert (this was in the upper deck is very often the family see). Six-year-old Mohammed Amina when his mother died, was eight years old when his grandfather had also died. His uncle阿布塔in the care of his cloth.阿布塔in cloth is an ancient tribal Levin Hashemite clan of the new chiefs, then this is a Mecca for the most powerful tribes.

At that time, Mecca is a city state, and its center is Caillaba, Arabs and Jews legend is the common ancestor Abraham personally built. At that time, the majority of Mecca people worship icons. Although Mecca does not have its own resources, but it is an important shopping centers, many of the tribes to come here from afar exchange of goods. Legend Muhammad participated very actively in urban life, one of his uncle established an organization to help the poor, Mohammed participated very actively in its activities.
He helped resolve the dispute, access to a "reliable" (Al-Ameen) fine, in the quarrel, because he is very fair. Especially famous is following this story: When in a flood Caillaba were destroyed after the redevelopment, the leader of the tribes of Mecca The lack of a sacred That will be where the big Heishi back into the original person. Mohammed resolve this dispute as a fair person. He let everyone in a big white cloth to spread, this stone will be placed on the cloth, and let the city with tribal leaders will be in this piece of cloth dormitory Caillaba center, which will own this piece of stone Mohammed resettlement down.
Mohammed also with his young uncle to Syria selling, he therefore for many other places are familiar with the situation.

Middle-aged
About 595 years, in a travel, the 25-year-old Mohammed recognized the then 40-year-old widow Khadijah. Mohammed, and to be impressed Khadijah, she asked Mohammed whether愿意娶her UNIFEM. Mohamed life of this marriage is an important turning point. According to the prevailing rules youngest son is not any heritage, Mohamed neither where from his father from his grandfather is not there to receive any heritage. But Khadijah has brought him great wealth. Arab biography and record Khadijah Mohammed said there were six children. Khadijah and Mohamed uncle阿布塔in cloth in 619 years have passed away, said this year for Muslims "in grief." Later, Mohammed and his wife have no children, only with one of his女奴had a premature deaths son.

Old age
Mohammed was also married a dozen wives, in addition to阿伊莎, are widows, some of his people in the attack when their husbands will be killed.
His wife of the most famous is阿伊莎(عائشة), and some reported they betrothed recorded when she was only six years old, married at the age of nine, and the Arab girl will be married at the first menstruation in line with the habit.
His Egypt女奴Mary may have been released later become his wife and one of the early Muslims did not record it very clear that she was his wife or his freedom of女奴.

Answer 5

Yes there is. The Pollitically Incorrect Guide to Islam and The Crusades is such a book..............also there are websites written by both mohammadans and non mohammedans such as http://www.islam-watch.org/

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

Answer 6

the koran. lol just kidding. There's a movie called "the letter". Look it up on IMDB.com. Since it's illegal to portray the prphet, not a lot of movies were made about him... especially none that will tell you if he was bad.

Answer 7

I'm sure there's lots of official stuff on the Steiff web site that you could read through.

Answer 8

i have no idea.
you may visit www.scribd.com and www.4shared.com
you may get what you want

Answer 9

he was a rich guy cause he married a rich lady kids yes idk if he was a good or bad guy depends on who u ask