(RNS) – In his new book, “Muhammad: 40 Introductions,” Michael Muhammad Knight gives a crash course in the multiplicity of ways Muslims have historically imagined and remembered the Prophet ...

Michael Muhammad Knight's Muhammad: Forty Introductions asks two questions at the same time — or asks the same two questions 40 times ... through a hadith in which the prophet shows mercy ...

Most of what is known about how Muhammad lived is set down in the Hadith, which consist of recollections of the prophet's life by his companions, first passed on orally and later put down in writing.

The Qur’an [33:40] refers to Prophet Muhammad as Khatam an-Nabiyyin, the Seal of the Prophets. Just as a government official stamps a seal on the end of document to show it is authentic ...

Protests have spread across the Muslim world over the publication in Europe of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad ... Islamic tradition or Hadith, the stories of the words and actions of Muhammad and ...

The “blasphemers” in this case were the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists who recently published a fresh depiction of the prophet ... Muhammad. And the second most important Islamic text, the Hadith ...

The Prophet ... Muhammad presents two violently incompatible faces to the historian. For devout Muslims, relying both on the Quran and the vast corpus of sacred traditions, the hadith, he serves ...