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# The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad

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Review: Biography of Prophet Muhammad - I liked the style of the author, who weaves her narrative in a very easy to read manner and captures the attention of the reader by bringing the main character to life! Truly, this is a remarkable narrative written with authenticity and compassion. Lesley Hazelton does justice to this biography with facts and masterful story telling, which takes one through the life of Prophet Muhammad as though you were there with him during the time he lived. I read the book with riveted attention and could hardly put it down! Indeed a marvelous piece of writing as the author creates the awareness of his being fully human and the task ahead to convey God’s message to mankind as His chosen Messenger. She does justice to his life’s mission and why he is considered the most influential person in history.
Review: Balanced Biography... - Muhammad's story so lends itself to hagiography. It follows then that anyone attempting to write it can take the easy road and yield to this wonderful temptation. After all, who doesn't like to hear (or tell) a super hero story once every while? But, all of us have to go home once the movie ends. And, that is where Lesley Hazleton's story begins. Building on the solid premise of an orphaned child's need for social acceptance and inclusion, she effortlessly provides a new window from which to view the Prophet's life and mission. She uses his various personality traits (detachment, integrity, steadfastness) to show why he was so exclusively suited to the role he played while also highlighting the weight of prophethood on even this strongest of shoulders. She presents us the man with all his frailties, idiosyncrasies and failures but with empathy and the understanding that hindsight is always 20/20. Lesley claims and does carefully avoid the mistake many historians (or history journalists as I like to call them) make - projecting the future into the past. She adamantly examines him in the backdrop of 7th century Arabia and remains true to Muhammad's early biographers, Ibn Ishaq and Al-Tabari. To a discerning Indian reader, especially to those exposed to Irawati Karve and M T Vasudevan Nair, this approach might not seem too novel. It is one thing to re-render a mythological story but it is totally another to reconstruct the story of a man who lived in flesh and blood and held dear by millions of people. That Lesley manages this with compassion and a lot of respect (for a scarcely understood man) is what makes this a compelling work. Some people (most people) like Tony Stark better than Iron man. Maybe you are one of them.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #541,087 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #138 in Muhammed in Islam #201 in History of Islam #2,023 in Religious Leader Biographies |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (1,408) |
| Dimensions  | 5.53 x 0.96 x 8.2 inches |
| Edition  | First Edition |
| ISBN-10  | 1594632308 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1594632303 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 384 pages |
| Publication date  | February 4, 2014 |
| Publisher  | Riverhead Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Biography of Prophet Muhammad
*by F***M on March 5, 2013*

I liked the style of the author, who weaves her narrative in a very easy to read manner and captures the attention of the reader by bringing the main character to life! Truly, this is a remarkable narrative written with authenticity and compassion. Lesley Hazelton does justice to this biography with facts and masterful story telling, which takes one through the life of Prophet Muhammad as though you were there with him during the time he lived. I read the book with riveted attention and could hardly put it down! Indeed a marvelous piece of writing as the author creates the awareness of his being fully human and the task ahead to convey God’s message to mankind as His chosen Messenger. She does justice to his life’s mission and why he is considered the most influential person in history.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Balanced Biography...
*by A***O on December 27, 2013*

Muhammad's story so lends itself to hagiography. It follows then that anyone attempting to write it can take the easy road and yield to this wonderful temptation. After all, who doesn't like to hear (or tell) a super hero story once every while? But, all of us have to go home once the movie ends. And, that is where Lesley Hazleton's story begins. Building on the solid premise of an orphaned child's need for social acceptance and inclusion, she effortlessly provides a new window from which to view the Prophet's life and mission. She uses his various personality traits (detachment, integrity, steadfastness) to show why he was so exclusively suited to the role he played while also highlighting the weight of prophethood on even this strongest of shoulders. She presents us the man with all his frailties, idiosyncrasies and failures but with empathy and the understanding that hindsight is always 20/20. Lesley claims and does carefully avoid the mistake many historians (or history journalists as I like to call them) make - projecting the future into the past. She adamantly examines him in the backdrop of 7th century Arabia and remains true to Muhammad's early biographers, Ibn Ishaq and Al-Tabari. To a discerning Indian reader, especially to those exposed to Irawati Karve and M T Vasudevan Nair, this approach might not seem too novel. It is one thing to re-render a mythological story but it is totally another to reconstruct the story of a man who lived in flesh and blood and held dear by millions of people. That Lesley manages this with compassion and a lot of respect (for a scarcely understood man) is what makes this a compelling work. Some people (most people) like Tony Stark better than Iron man. Maybe you are one of them.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The First Muslim
*by E***N on June 18, 2013*

The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad Lesley Hazelton isn't just a seasoned reporter who's probed her subject like few others have, she's a elegant writer, able to craft a compelling and fluid story. And a story is what this is, considering that her subject lived some 1400 years ago and spent most of that time clouded by legend. That said, she's painstakingly researched the primary biographies of the prophet and Koran itself translating the original text word by word. With a reporter's zeal and a novelist's eye she pulls together the most realistic, thoughtful and entertaining story of Mohammed anyone could ask for. Nevertheless she will have her critics. Since it is nearly impossible to untangle Islam from the strife, the war, the land, the water supply, the oil, the fanaticism, racism and history that inextricably link it to Western thought, there are those who'll find her "off message" and, therefore, suspect. Look only as far as Hari Kunru in the New York Times, who seems stunned and confused that Ms. Hazelton managed to see beyond the prism of his own personal experiences. After all, some fundamentalist government banned him from speaking somewhere...shouldn't that be part of her story? For him, and those like him, the bigger story is problematic; personal experience matters, so long as it's his own. Fortunately reviewers like Kunru seem to be the minority, and a transparent minority at that. This book is strong enough to stand on its own merit, and its own quality.

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