A Portrait of the Prophet: As seen by his contemporaries (Ash-Shama'il Al-Muhammadiyya) History and this new addition to

and this new addition to the increasingly rich and varied literature now available in the English language is both useful and accurate in its presentation and content

this account demonstrates why there are so few other texts that have continued to impact Muslims in the eastern Islamic world

About the Authors:

Michael Muhammad Knight converted to Islam at the age of sixteen after reading the autobiography of Malcolm X

Marxist revolutionaries

A Portrait of the Prophet: As seen by his contemporaries (Ash-Shama'il Al-Muhammadiyya) History and this new addition toThis book belongs to the traditional genre of Islamic 'sacred history' sources known as sira (biography). It contains a famous and a most indispensable collection of authentic traditions (ahadith), listing the main texts from which to glean the beautiful attributes, both moral and physical, of the Holy Prophet Peace and Blessings be upon Him; attributes to which Muslims in all ages referred over and over, for the purposes of both meditation and