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Sat 03 Mar 2003Tracking the mystic of Mecca
Biography: Muhammad, the subject of Barnaby Rogerson's biography, is a figure of giant stature and abiding importance. He was, after all, the founder of one of the greatest empires of the world, creator of classical Arabic and of a worldwide religion that now has many millions of followers, write Mary Russell.
As such, Rogerson treats him with much reverence so that his book sometimes reads like a Lives of the Saints, with archaic words such as "verily" and "vouchsafed" scattered throughout the text.
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