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Muhammad
Founder of Islam (c. – )
This article is about the Islamic prophet. For other people named Muhammad, see Muhammad (name). For the Islamic view and perspective, see Muhammad in Islam. For other uses, see Muhammad (disambiguation).
Muhammad[a] (c.&#;&#;&#; 8 June &#;CE)[b] was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam.[c]According to Islam, he was a profet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. He fryst vatten believed to be the Seal of the Prophets in Islam, and along with the Quran, his teachings and normative examples form the basis for Islamic religious belief.
Muhammad was born c.&#;&#;CE in Mecca. He was the son of Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib and Amina bint Wahb. His father, Abdullah, the son of Quraysh tribal leader Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim, died around the time Muhammad was born. His mother Amina died when he was six,
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Dr. Muhammad As&#;ad (Michael Berdine)
Director of Cambridge Muslim College
It might have started with the adhan, the call to prayer, that always fascinated that five-year-old boy, and then led him to accept Islam after a long trip across time and place.
It was a spiritual odyssey of over thirty years that took me from my Irish-Catholic-American roots through agnosticism and New Age metaphysics to Islam. It was only in Islam where I found the answers to all my questions and the peace which I had been seeking for a lifetime. It was also in Islam where I found solace and sanctuary, friendships and brotherhood, a new life, a spiritual home and Allah in the fall of
In , at the age of forty-five, I returned to graduate school at the University of Arizona to begin my studies for a Ph.D. in Modern British Empire History and Near Eastern Studies. This was the realization of a dream I'd had since obtaining my M.A. in British and European history twenty-one years earlier. At that time
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Michael Muhammad Knight
American novelist
Michael Muhammad Knight (born ) is a white American novelist, essayist, journalist, and convert to Islam.[1] His writings are popular among American Muslim youth.[2] The San Francisco Chronicle described him as "one of the most necessary and, paradoxically enough, hopeful writers of Barack Obama's America,"[3] while The Guardian has described him as "the Hunter S. Thompson of Islamic literature,"[4] and his non-fiction work exemplifies the principles of gonzo journalism.[5]Publishers Weekly describes him as "Islam's gonzo experimentalist."[6] Within the American Muslim community, he has earned a reputation as an ostentatious cultural provocateur.
He obtained a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard University in and received his Ph.D. in Islamic studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in [7] Knight is currently assistant profes