Muhammad: Islam's First Great General.(Book review)

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Muhammad: Islam's First Great General. By Richard A. Gabriel. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. 252 pages. $24.95.

Books about the founder of Islam probably number in the tens of thousands. Thousands of tracts exist relating to his personal life, his philosophies, his sayings, and his actions as a religious leader. But to my knowledge until this point no full-length book had addressed him purely as a military/political leader, certainly none in English. In doing so Richard Gabriel does a service. Muhammad: Islam's First Great General is not political in the ...

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