Muhammad (book)

{{Short description|1961 biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad}}

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Muhammad is a 1961 biography of the Islamic prophet written by French historian Maxime Rodinson. It focuses on materialist conditions of emergence of Islam.

In Egypt, in 1998, censorship controversies forced the American University in Cairo to stop publishing the book.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/03/guardianobituaries.france|title=Obituary: Maxime Rodinson|last=Johnson|first=Douglas|date=2004-06-03|work=The Guardian|location=London|access-date=2019-06-03|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}