“They funded Muhammad ... Prophet” as evidence. Kecia Ali, professor of religion at Boston University, told USA TODAY that while historians may disagree about specific details of Muhammad’s ...

The family was active in Meccan politics and trade. In his early teens, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) worked in a camel caravan, following in the footsteps of many people his age, born of meager wealth.

One of Prophet Muhammad’s early biographers Ibn Hisham states ... of Yathrib that a new prophet would shortly appear. (The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul ...

Bahira called in Muhammad and questioned him about his spiritual life ... early portions of the Qur’an express a clear hope that the “peoples of the Book” would accept Muhammad as a prophet.

But, why did Rabbi Mukhayriq give such extraordinary life risking support to Prophet ... that Prophet Muhammad taught 12 centuries before the rise of Reform Judaism in the early 19th century ...

“They funded Muhammad ... the seventh-century Arabian prophet Muhammad,” Ali said. “Historians using centuries’ worth of textual and other evidence from early Muslims and their neighbors ...