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Muhammad at Mecca Library Binding – December 1, 1980

by W. Montgomery Watt (Author)
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W. Montgomery Watt's book was written in response to the need for a fresh life of the Holy Prophet set in a fuller historical context.
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  1. Print length
    208 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    OUP Pakistan
  4. Publication date
    December 1, 1980
  5. Dimensions
    5.75 x 0.71 x 8.74 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0195772784
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0195772784
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W. Montgomery Watt is at University of Edinburgh (Emeritus).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ OUP Pakistan; 1st edition (December 1, 1980)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Library Binding ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195772784
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195772784
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.71 x 8.74 inches
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Hussain Abdul-Hussain
5.0 out of 5 stars A rare and objective account
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2005
Muhammed at Mecca is a remarkable volume that covers the first part of the prophet of Islam and the early days of his young nation prior to 622 CE, the year of Hijra when Muhammed left Mecca to Medina which also marks the first year of the Muslim calander. With much skill and ability to retrodict events and put them in their historical context, Watt offers this book as one of the most authentic works on the subject.

The volume is an academic work and might not appeal to all kinds of readers save for academics and those who are very interested in the subject. Watt employs the modern methodology in classifying, crediting and discrediting almost all of the primary sources of the time. Watt then objectively treats these sources and draws conclusions that a reader can rarely find in other places.

His gifted style helped a great deal in making a lengthy volume full of details entertaining for the reader and rather catchy. Those who are interested in reading about the whole story of Muhammed and his mission should also buy Watt's second volume, Mohammed at Medina, which covers his post Hijra years until his death in 632.

Too bad the book is out-of-print. Publishers should consider marketing a second edition since it would certainly deserve the attention and interest of many scholars and readers today.
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Jennifer
3.0 out of 5 stars Muhammad in Mecca
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2016
The only valid biography about Muhammad and Islam is by Ibn Ishaq, whose remarkable book was censored by Ibn Hisham. The English translation is The Life of Muhammad by Guillaume, who made the fatal mistake of using the title God for Allah, and so misses the most vitally important point of Islam.
Tabari used Ishaq's original uncensored text for his History.
Read them both, with the relevant Hadith, traditional stories by Bukhari and Muslim.
Muhammad was the messenger of Allah, not God.
In Arabic, the Qur'an and Sharia, Almighty God is Ilah and Allah is ‘the god’ in English.
In Arabic and the Qur'an, God/Ilah is Al-Rahman, the Beneficent, the Most Merciful, the Most Gracious.
These years in Mecca are extremely interesting, because Muhammad invoked Ilah, Ar Rahman, as well as Allah the pagan god of Arabia. Muhammad faced the sacred place of Jerusalem while praying, in honour of Abraham. During these years most of the chapters and verses are in the name of Ilah. In his last years in Mecca he began invoking only Allah as his one god. The final invocation in the name of Ilah occurred in the first year at Yathrib [Medina] in chapter 2. From then on only the name of Allah was invoked.
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Randall Koehlmoos
4.0 out of 5 stars Events in relation to the world environment at that time.
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 1999
W. Montgomery Watt wrote Muhammad at Mecca in response to his perceived need for a new look at the life of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) set in a fuller historical context. He states that part of this need arose from the broader desire of twentieth century historians to see historical events in relation to the economic, social, and political background prevalent at that particular time. The author asserts that the special feature of this biography of Muhammad is thus not that it combs available sources more minutely than others have done previously, but that it pays fuller attention to these material factors, and attempts to answer many questions that have hardly been raised in the past. When this work is juxtaposed with Watt's other work Muhammad at Medina, the two together constitute a comprehensive history of the life of Muhammad and the origins of the Islamic community. The author declares in the introduction of this work that it is first and foremost written for the historian. He warns though that there is inherently the human inclination of 'tendential shaping' by early historians to make allowances for distortions or even to make it more acceptable within the shadow of other religions such as Christianity or Judaism. Though many bibliographic sources used for this work are based on earlier primary sources, one must remember that there are no known written sources other than the Qur'an about the life of the Prophet written prior to about 150 years after his death.
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James C. Alexander
5.0 out of 5 stars Benefited from a professional's intelligent honest non-partisan approach to the history
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 30, 2016
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Everything a scholar should be. Streched me but clear. Benefited from a professional's intelligent honest non-partisan approach to the history.
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