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THE FIRST MUSLIM - LESLEY HAZLETON KARTONIERT (TB)

The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam  and the world he inhabited-and remade.  
Lesley Hazleton's new book  Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto  is out now from Riverhead Books.  
Muhammad's was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance  yet for all the iconic
power of his name  the intensely dramatic story of the prophet of Islam is not well known. In
The First Muslim  Lesley Hazleton brings him vibrantly to life. Drawing on early eyewitness
sources and on history  politics  religion  and psychology  she renders him as a man in full 
in all his complexity and vitality.   Hazleton's account follows the arc of Muhammad's rise
from powerlessness to power  from anonymity to renown  from insignificance to lasting
significance. How did a child shunted to the margins end up revolutionizing his world? How did
a merchant come to challenge the established order with a new vision of social justice? How did
the pariah hounded out of Mecca turn exile into a new and victorious beginning? How did the
outsider become the ultimate insider?   Impeccably researched and thrillingly readable 
Hazleton's narrative creates vivid insight into a man navigating between idealism and
pragmatism  faith and politics  nonviolence and violence  rejection and acclaim. The First
Muslim illuminates not only an immensely significant figure but his lastingly relevant legacy.

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