Analysis Of Muhammad: A Biography Of The Prophet By Karen Muhammad

Muhammad is a novel written by Driss Chraibi a distinct modern North African novelist and journalist. The novel is simply not about the Prophet Muhammad, but a novel about a man from Mecca named Muhammad who later became the prophet of the great religion of Islam. In this novel the author did not tent to apply the deification of Muhammad, but rather explained the human part of him, which was indeed as great as a human being could ever be. Also, this novel is not intended to discuss the life of Muhammad from a historical point, but a novel further explains the characters of Mohammad. Yet, the author emphasized that this book is not biography of the Prophet on a traditional religious account. Thus, the book is not a historical work, but the author

Traditionally it was believed that the Prophet Mohammad was inspired by the Gabriel. The overall process of inspiration is pretty much integrated as: angel Gabriel approached Muhammad claiming that he was the chosen one, and not few seconds after that Muhammad was sitting before Gabriel listening to and reciting God 's massage. On the other hand, in a historical sense, if we take the religious part out of it, the composition will be about how Muhammad was as a great man, a reformer, a self-made man who accomplished amazing things – like what I have got out of “Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet” by Karen Armstrong. Armstrong’s work concluded a deep historical

Much to the differentiation of Chraibi ’s novel with other traditional works was that Chraibi emphasis the love between Muhammad and his wife Khadija. In the story Chraibi applied sentences in the Quran that used to praise God onto apprise the love and appreciation Muhammad hold for Khadija. Take this line for example: “When I was an orphan, you gave me refuge. When I was wandering, you pointed to the road. You found me poor and you made me wealthy” (61). Muhammad didn’t say this out laud, but it was precisely how he felt. Actually the fact that he didn’t laud it in spoken words also implies that love and appreciation is held in a rather spiritual level of the mind, that is, way more than what we are able to express with spoken