Two new works seek to uncover the man who was Muhammad

The Boston Globe | October 29, 2006| | Copyright

Muhammad

By Eliot Weinberger

Verso, 64 pp., $10.95

Muhammad:

A Prophet for

Our Time

By Karen Armstrong

HarperCollins/Atlas, 249 pp., $21.95

In a lecture at the University of Regensburg, in Germany, last month, Pope Benedict XVI talked about "jihad" as holy war and about using religion as an excuse for destruction and death. He quoted from a debate in the 14th century between Manuel II Paleologos, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, and a Persian cleric. "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword ...

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