Muhammad in Europe: A Thousand Years of Western Myth-Making Activism The Oprah Magazine

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The Life of Muhammad (1976)

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Muhammad in Europe: A Thousand Years of Western Myth-Making Activism The Oprah MagazineThis book ships out after August 5 Generations of Western writersfrom the Crusades to the present dayhave written portraits claiming to depict the life and personality of Muhammad, the founder of Islam. Over the course of thirteen centuries, stubbornly biased and consistently negative representations have persisted, presenting images that bear no resemblance to the nobleman familiar to Muslims. Muhammad in Europe traces this consistent tradition of