Muhammad [Mohammed]

lv, [1], 362, [2] pp. 8vo. Brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece. Translated from the French by Anne Carter, with a foreword by Gerhard Bowering. This is an account of Mohammad's life and is also the study of the impact of an ideology upon a society. Seventh century Arabia, although fragmented and in many respects primitive, was moving towards a settled economy. The ideology of Islam - calling for submission to the will of God - moulded this nation into unity and into a conquering force which, within a hundred years of Mohammad's death, subdued an area stretching from the Pyrenees to the borders of China. CONTENTS: Introducing a World; Introducing a Land; Birth of a Prophet; Birth of a Sect; The Prophet in Arms; Birth of a State; Triumph Over Death.