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Islam

Cole’s ‘Muhammad: Prophet of Peace’ an NYT Editor’s Choice Book

Juan Cole 01/04/2019

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Many thanks to the New York Times for recommending my new book, ‘Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires:’

Editors’ Choice: “11 New Books We Recommend This Week”

Gregory Cowles writes, “How better to enter the new year than with a look back? History runs through many of this week’s recommended titles, from the fall of Rome to the birth of Islam to Michelangelo in 16th-century Constantinople.”

He adds with regard to my own book:

MUHAMMAD: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires, by Juan Cole. (Nation, $28.) Cole offers an ambitiously revisionist picture of the father of Islam, replacing the idea of a militant leader with one of a peacemaker who wanted only to preach his monotheism freely and even sought “multicultural” harmony. Writing in the Book Review, Mustafa Akyol calls it “eruditely informative” and says Cole is “demonstrably right in concluding that Islamic orthodoxy deviated from its foundations by ‘abrogating’ the peaceful and tolerant verses of the Quran.”


    Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires, published October 9, 2018

    Now available at Barnes and Noble

    And Nicola’s Books in Ann Arbor

    And Hachette

    And Amazon

Filed Under: Islam, Qur'an

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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