A Portrait of the Prophet: As seen by his contemporaries (Ash-Shama'il Al-Muhammadiyya) History Print length: 223 pages

Print length: 223 pages

this account demonstrates why there are so few other texts that have continued to impact Muslims in the eastern Islamic world

Marxist revolutionaries

is a very valuable addition to the ever growing library of English Islamic literature

The second title in the Treasury in Islamic Thought and Civilization series

A Portrait of the Prophet: As seen by his contemporaries (Ash-Shama'il Al-Muhammadiyya) History Print length: 223 pagesThis book belongs to the traditional genre of Islamic 'sacred history' sources known as sira (biography). It contains a famous and a most indispensable collection of authentic traditions (ahadith), listing the main texts from which to glean the beautiful attributes, both moral and physical, of the Holy Prophet Peace and Blessings be upon Him; attributes to which Muslims in all ages referred over and over, for the purposes of both meditation and