Muhammad - Hardcover

"No neocon has opened his or her mouth without the poet Eliot Weinberger hearing it and never forgiving."--The Times "Eliot Weinberger is a master essayist, a furious thinker and an exceptionally elegant writer."--Jenny Diski "Like Joan Didion, Weinberger is a master of distilling massive amounts of information into a compelling takedown."--Time Out New York

"Muhammad" is a shimmering, lyrical biography of the Prophet, composed from the words of Muslims throughout the centuries. Drawing on a variety of Islamic sources, from the hadith, or sayings of Muhammad and his companions, to Abbasid and Persian texts, Weinberger weaves a subtle, mystical prose poem, spanning Muhammad's birth and childhood; his adolescence, miracles and marriages; to the isra and miraj, his journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and ascent into heaven, with the angel Jibril (Gabriel) as his guide. The result is a vivid triptych that presents the final prophet of Islam with extraordinary clarity.