Meeting the Prophet

You cannot love what you do not know.The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was born in Mecca in 570, received the first revelation in a cave at forty, and died in Medina at sixty-three. In the years between, he delivered a religion that reshaped history and a character that Muslims have tried to imitate for fourteen centuries.Meeting the Prophet is a short introduction for the new Muslim. It tells the shape of the life - the losses, the marriage, the revelation, the migration, the conquest, the farewell, the death. It describes the man himself - how he looked, how he ate, how he slept, how he treated his family, how he laughed, how he grieved.Not a scholarly biography. A first meeting.Second edition, revised and reset. Book Seventeen of The New Muslim Companion - a series of twenty books for the new Muslim, the returning Muslim, and the curious reader: plain English, no Arabic assumed, honest about where scholars differ.