Encyclopedia of Islam

Further reading: Ali S. Asani, Kemal Abdel-Malik, and 

Annemarie Schimmel, Celebrating Muhammad: Images 

of the Prophet in Popular Muslim Poetry (Columbia: 

University of South Carolina Press, 1995); Muham-

mad Husayn Haykal, The Life of Muhammad. Translated 

by Ismail R. Faruqi (Indianapolis: American Trust 

Publications, 1976); Muhammad ibn Ishaq, The Life 

of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul 

Allah. Translated by Alfred Guillaume (Oxford: Oxford 

University Press, 1955); Ibn Kathir, The Life of the 

Prophet Muhammad. Translated by Trevor Le Gassick 

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(Reading, England: Garnet Publishing, 1998); F. E. 

Peters,  Muhammad and the Origins of Islam (Albany: 

State University of New York Press, 1994); ———, A 

Reader on Classical Islam (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton 

University Press, 1994, 44–98); Maxime Rodinson, “A 

Critical Survey of Modern Studies of Muhammad.” In 

Studies on Islam, edited by Merlin Swartz, 23–85 (New 

York: Oxford University Press, 1981); ———, Muham-

mad. Translated by Anne Carter (New York: New Press, 

2002); Annemarie Schimmel, And Muhammad Is His 

Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety

(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985); 

Barbara Stowasser, Women in the Quran: Traditions and 

Interpretation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994); 

W. Montgomery Watt, Muhammad: Prophet and States-

man (London: Oxford University Press, 1961).