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Qur'an

My “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires” now a Bold Type Book

Juan Cole 01/15/2019

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Congratulations to my publisher @BoldTypeBooks on their new name!

I’m proud to be a Bold Author and part of the #BoldTypeBooks community. www.BoldTypeBooks.org.

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    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

And just a reminder:

The New York Times Book Review has a glowing review of my new book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires, calling it ‘erudite,’ ‘informative’ and ‘ambitiously revisionist.’

Mustafa Akyol writes in his review, “Illuminating Islam’s Peaceful Origins”

    “Cole’s book, “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires,” is not just eruditely informative, but also ambitiously revisionist, with two unorthodox arguments he keenly advances throughout the book.

    The first argument links the birth of Islam in early-seventh-century Arabia to the major geopolitical conflict of the time — the clash between the Christian Byzantine Empire based in Constantinople and the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire based in today’s Iran.”

He continues:

    Cole’s second argument is more important. Going against familiar if not frequent militant images of the Prophet Muhammad in the West, he portrays Islam’s founder as a peacemaker who wanted only to preach his monotheism freely and who even tried to establish “multicultural” harmony.

Akyol concludes, “Beneath this thick layer of what became Islamic tradition, there is a more uplifting image of the Prophet Muhammad, waiting to be discovered not just by non-Muslims, but also many Muslims themselves.”

Read the whole review, which also considers Jack Miles’ new book, God in the Qur’an.

Mr. Akyol, a prominent journalist who has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, etc., has a fascinating book The Islamic Jesus.

Filed Under: 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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