Expeditions: An Early Biography Of Muhammad ﷺ

Mamar Ibn Rashid

Sean W. Anthony (translation)

Paperback, 320 pages

English-only edition

9781479816828

Kitab al-Maghazi, Parallel English-Arabic text

The life of the Prophet s.a.w. and the story of early Islam

The Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w  to survive into the modern era. Its primary author, Maʿmar ibn Rashid (714-770 AD/96-153 AH), was a prominent scholar from Basra in southern Iraq who was revered for his learning in prophetic traditions, Islamic law, and the interpretation of the Qurʾan.