{"product_id":"the-warrior-prophet-muhammad-and-war","title":"The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad And War","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost Islamic biographies deal with Muhammad's use of warfare by using an understandable but insufficient logic: that the Messenger of Allah was the ideal and paradigmatic human, so he must have been an ideal and paradigmatic military commander.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWanting Muḥammad's behavior to conform to very modern ethical concepts and widespread (but not necessarily accurate) beliefs about the nature and conduct of war, the writers have created a narrative which, in significant ways, departs from the account clearly and consistently revealed in the earliest extant Arabic sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProfessor Joel Hayward sees this as an unhelpful explanatory tendency and believes that the modern depiction of the Prophet's relationship with warfare - which presents him as being rather antipathetic to war, indeed as virtually a pacifist who only fought reluctantly in self-defense - cannot actually be sustained by a thorough and even-handed analysis of the early Islamic sources.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joel Hayward ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51583039865056,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/6237\/6416\/files\/618nz8cSUWL._SY425.jpg?v=1776343406","url":"https:\/\/noorisons.com\/products\/the-warrior-prophet-muhammad-and-war","provider":"Noori Sons","version":"1.0","type":"link"}