Muhammad: The Messenger of Islam Book

I started reading this YEARS ago but and was really enjoying it except for one thing. It has no footnotes whatsoever, it doesn't even refer to the "authentic Ottoman Turkish tests" from which it's author (a female Sufi scholar) got the material to write this book. That is disturbing to me, and therefore I never finished it. I like my biographies of the Prophet pbuh to have footnotes or refer back to a text etc. I do hope to one day reread this (and now it's available in ebook form HURRAY!). I'm much further along in my faith now, have been exposed to a lot more and have even come across the all but one of the few things that stood out in my mind from the book in other sources. I hate to rate a book I never finished but I know I was "really [liking] it" and I'm quite sure I would have continued to liked it as I like biographies as a general rule and it being about the prophet pbuh just makes it more enjoyable for me. I did need to deduct two stars because of the complete lack of references for the reader.


If and when I finish the book I will update this review.