Volume 17 & 18, Number 12 & 1 · January 27, 1972
Muhammad Muckraked
By L.P. Elwell-Sutton
Mohammed
by Maxime Rodinson, translated by Anne Carter
Pantheon, 361 pp., $8.95
It says something for the vital personality of the Prophet Muhammad that, after nearly fourteen centuries, his life and work should still be the subject of agonized discussion, not merely by Muslims but by writers of all races and creeds. Muhammad is certainly one of the most challenging and even baffling of history's great prophetic figures; and the mystery that surrounds him seems paradoxically to stem from the fact that we know so much about him—much more than we do about, say, Moses, Zoroaster, Buddha, or even Jesus.
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