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Islam and Sufism

The Life of Muhammad

A Translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah

by Alfred Guillaume · Alfred Guillaume (trans.)

The standard English translation of the earliest surviving biography of the Prophet, Ibn Ishaq's eighth-century work as edited by Ibn Hisham, with passages reconstructed from other sources. It is the essential primary text for anyone studying the traditional account of the Prophet's life.

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