The work of Dr. Martin Lings is acclaimed worldwide as perhaps the most empathetic and profound biography of Muhammad, peace be upon him, and has received high accolades in many languages. It is read with the same pleasure by those familiar with Muhammad's life story as by those encountering it for the first time. The book owes its freshness and directness to the words of those men and women who heard Muhammad speak himself. Outstanding narrative talent combines with historical precision to create a masterpiece that, as gripping as a novel, brings historical events and figures to new life, while remaining solely committed to reality; a reality that reveals itself to the astonished reader as wonderful and miraculous.