The Life and Legacy of Muhammad
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Narrated by:
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Maria Dakake
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Written by:
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Maria Dakake
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The Great Courses
About this listen
New religious movements aren’t earthquakes - they’re not generated by blind natural forces, and they’re not inevitable. Social and spiritual change requires a catalyst to set it in motion. And in the case of Islam, that catalyst has a name: Muhammad.
He was a charismatic individual, born of the existing culture of sixth-century Arabia and yet somehow alienated from it. He drew on existing religious ideas in radically new ways that would change his world - and ours - forever.
Join Maria Dakake of George Mason University for a riveting exploration of Islam’s founding prophet. The Life and Legacy of Muhammad leads you through the earliest historical accounts of the prophet’s life and personality. Along the way, you’ll examine struggles over Muhammad’s legacy in the centuries since his death. You’ll also examine the ways Muslims have understood the meaning of Muhammad in their religious lives and the ongoing debates among scholars and Muslims over his life, example, and teaching.
The Sufis have a saying: “Muhammad is a man, but not like other men; he is a ruby, while other men are stones.” These 10 illuminating lectures are your chance to discover just what that means.
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- M. S.
- 2024-01-24
Amazing summary
As Muslim, I can say that this audiobook is a pretty good summary. I wish the author mentioned that Muslims were even directed not to record any of Muhammad’s history or hadith and only the Quran should be used as the source of the Islamic traditions.
I am part of the Muslim minority who reject all Hadith as a failed attempt to create a vortex to alter the religion based on narrator’s bias of each Hadith. Moreover, In my humble opinion, Hadith should be only used as historic records with the correct scrutiny for these records.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2022-03-24
Memorable and enlightening!
Hear this if you want a thoughtful and generous treatment of one of history's most important figures.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Kindle Customer
- 2022-06-21
Full of bias and conjecture
The historical accuracy in this book is questionable, and there seems to be a narrative throughout the book where the author writes in favour of the perspective that goes against the mainstream historical accounts accepted by Muslims. This is a common theme in many secular and Western works on Islamic history. I suggest reading literature by scholars who dedicated their lives studying the biography of the Prophet and transmit all historical accounts, rather than someone inexperienced who is selective in their narration based on their biases.
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