We know less than you might think about the lives of Buddha, Abraham, Jesus, Muhammed, and most other religious “founders.” Author David Fitzgerald is a history buff whose primary fascination is the early history of religion. From a “henotheistic” cult in which Yahweh was worshiped as the chief god among many, they refashioned the national religion so that henceforth Yahweh …
We know less than you might think about the lives of Buddha, Abraham, Jesus, Muhammed, and most other religious "founders." Approximately two generations after Muhammad's official death date, the first references to Islam and "Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam" appear. After the Abbasid dynasty supplants Abd al-Malik's Umayyad line in the mid-8th century, the first complete biography of Muhammad finally …
