Ebook: Muhammad: his life based on the earliest sources

The House of God -- A Great Loss -- Quraysh of the Hollow -- The Recovery of a Loss -- The Vow to Sacrifice a Son -- The Need for a Prophet -- The Year of the Elephant -- The Desert -- Two Bereavements -- Bahira the Monk -- A Pact of Chivalry -- Questions of Marriage -- The Household -- The Rebuilding of the Ka?bah -- The First Revelations -- Worship -- "Warn Thy Family" -- Quraysh Take Action -- Aws and Khazraj -- Abu Jahl and Hamzah -- Quraysh Make Offers and Demands -- Leaders of Quraysh -- Wonderment and Hope -- Family Divisions -- The Hour -- Three Questions -- Abyssinia -- Umar -- The Ban and its Annulment -- Paradise and Eternity -- The Year of Sadness -- "The Light of Thy Countenance" -- After the Year of Sadness -- Yathrib Responsive -- Many Emigrations -- A Conspiracy -- The Hijrah -- The Entry into Medina -- Harmony and Discord -- The New Household -- The Threshold of War -- The March to Badr -- The Battle of Badr -- The Return of the Vanquished -- The Captives -- Bani Qaynuqa?? -- Deaths and Marriages -- The People of the Bench -- Desultory Warfare -- Preparations for Battle -- The March to Uhud -- The Battle of Uhud -- Revenge -- The Burial of the Martyrs -- After Uhud -- Victims of Revenge -- Bani Nadir -- Peace and War -- The Trench -- The Siege -- Bani Quray?ah -- After the Siege -- The Hypocrites -- The Necklace -- The Lie -- The Dilemma of Quraysh -- "A Clear Victory" -- After Hudaybiyah -- Khaybar -- "Whom Lovest Thou Most?" -- After Khaybar -- The Lesser Pilgrimage and its Aftermath -- Syria -- A Breach of the Armistice -- The Conquest of Mecca -- The Battle of Hunayn and the Siege of Taif -- Reconciliations -- After the Victory -- Tabuk -- After Tabuk -- The Degrees -- The Future -- The Farewell Pilgrimage -- The Choice -- The Succession and the Burial.;Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet in the English language. Martin Lings? life of Muhammad is unlike any other. Based on Arabic sources of the eighth and ninth centuries, of which some important passages are translated here for the first time, it owes the freshness and directness of its approach to the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. Martin Lings has an unusual gift for narrative. He has adopted a style which is at once extremely readable and reflects both the simplicity and grandeur of the story. The result is a book which will be read with equal enjoyment by those already familiar with Muhammad?s life and those coming to it for the first time. This book was given an award by the government of Pakistan, and selected as the best biography of the Prophet in English at the National Seerat Conference in Islamabad in 1983. -- Description from http://kitaabun.com (Jan. 26, 2012).