The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited—and remade. Look out for Lesley Hazleton’s new book, Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto, coming in February 2016. Muhammad’s was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his name, the intensely dramatic story of the prophet of Islam is not …
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