Norman Spinrad, né le 15 septembre 1940 à New York, est un auteur de science-fiction américain. Appartenant à la Nouvelle Vague littéraire qui a révolutionné la science-fiction dans les années 1960-1970. Il a été rendu célèbre par des livres perçus à l'époque comme de véritables bombes, principalement Jack Barron et l'Éternité et Rêve de fer. Après avoir vécu à Los Angeles puis à San Francisco, il vit depuis plusieurs années à Paris.
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The Prophet Muhammad is a hero for all mankind. In his lifetime he established a new religion, Islam; a new state, the first united Arabia; and a new literary language, the classical Arabic of the Qur'an, for the Qur'an is believed to be the word of God revealed to Muhammad by the angel Gabriel. A generation after his death he would be acknowledged as the founder of a world empire and a new civilisation.
Any one of these achievements would have been more than enough to permanently establish his genius. To our early twenty-first century minds, what is all the more astonishing is that he also managed to stay true to himself and retained to his last days the humility, courtesy and humanity that he had learned as an orphan shepherd boy in central Arabia. If one looks for a parallel example from Christendom, you would have to combine the Emperor Constantine with St Francis and St Paul, an awesome prospect.
Barnaby Rogerson's elegant biography not only looks directly at the life of the Prophet Muhammad, but beautifully evokes for western readers the Arabian world into which he was born in 570 AD.
Título : The Prophet Muhammad
EAN : 9780748124695
Editorial : Little, Brown Book Group
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