William Montgomery Watt
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Professor of Arabic and Islāmic Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1964–79. Author of Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman; Muslim Intellectual: A Study of al-Ghazālī; General Editor of Islāmic Surveys.
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Muhammad was the founder of Islam and the proclaimer of the Qurʾān. He is traditionally said to have been born in 570 in Mecca and to have died in 632 in Medina, where he had been forced to emigrate to with his adherents in 622. The Qurʾān yields little concrete biographical information about the…
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