This is the one book that I enjoyed thoroughly from cover to cover. Martin Lings did a painstaking research to come up with all the details in the book. The book recounts the life of prophet mohammed and arabia before he was born. I understand the author died recently and has to his credit other books along the same theme. Naturally he converted and became a Muslim long before writing this book.
iIread several books on the biography of the Prophet but none was as detailed in terms of events and revelations. Take for example the Battle of the Trench (Khandaq) which virtually all the other books I read mentioned albeit scantily. This book gave the details of what happened and how the battle ended with the mushrik