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| Book | Type/scope | Illustr. inside | Cover art | In Bennett |
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| {{cite book|author=Watt, WM|title=Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=zLN2hNidLw4C|year=1961|publisher=OUP|pages=250}} | historical & religious bio. | two maps | mihrab[from the Mosque of Ibn Tulun (said on the back cover)] | section[Also described as among the "standard biographies" by Bennett on p.1 and similarly "standard biography of Muhammad" in Wilferd Madelung's The Succession to Muhammad, p. 5] |
{{cite book|author=Guillaume, A|title=The life of Muhammad: a translation of Isḥāq's Sīrat rasūl Allāh|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/life-of-muhammad-a-translation-of-ishaqs-sirat-rasu-l-allah/oclc/60142419|year=1955[7th reprint in 2004]|publisher=OUP|pages=813}} | Ibn Ishaq#Biography of Muhammad | none | blob (the sun?) | extensively[used as standard translation and abbreviated as I.I; also Guillaume's notes on various issues are cited, e.g. was it permitted to record Muhammad's daily activities, etc.] |
| {{cite book|author=Peters, FE|title=Muhammad and the origins of Islam|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Jrq6boXdJOAC|year=1994|publisher=SUNY Press|pages=334}} | secular biography | none | square Kufic (tawhid?) | citations[for Peters' evaluation of primary biographical sources for Muhammad's life, his opinions on various events in Muhammad's life, especially early ones.] |
{{cite book|author=Maxime Rodinson|title=Muhammad: prophet of Islam|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=LqR_mU0qpE4C|year=1961[Many reprints, translations, and 2 or 3 editions]|publisher=various|pages=}} | Marxist biography[still considered among the "standard biographies" by Bennett, p. 1] | two maps | mosque inscription[this is for the 2002 English edition, others may vary] | citations[especially on the historicity of various events] |
| {{cite book|author=Bennett, C|title=In Search of Muhammad|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-VTIkkcUFHQC|year=1998|publisher=Continuum; Cassell|pages=276}} | survey of bio. works[Bennett does emit his own opinions, but a large portion of the books is relating other biographers' approaches to Muhammad] | none | Mi'raj painting (veiled) | — |
{{cite book|author=Khan, AW|title=The Life of Prophet Muhammad|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YwEChd9vO8kC&pg=PA8|publisher=[http://iiph.com.sa IIPH]|pages=60|year=2002}}[IIPS publishes a lot of booklets like that. Some of them are even shorter, e.g. [http://books.google.com/books?id=61dHuuMb4t4C just 35pp]. They are rather obviously intended for religious consumption; [http://books.google.com/books?id=S-WOPHfBRVoC&printsec=frontcover PBUH] everywhere.] | bio. w/ religious tone & focus | none | Arabic calligraphy | no |