"If you haven't read Juan Cole's book, "Mohammad: The Prophet of Peace, Amid the Clash of Empires, It's an excellent book.
I mean I recently read it and I actually had a meeting with the author and I was just so impressed with how he showed clearly that the Prophet SAW was far from a warmonger which we know that he really was constantly looking for avenues of peace.
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Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
"I felt like I was reading the seerah for the first time. I highly recommend all of our listeners get one of Cole’s book.
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"About how the Prophet(SAW)'s political stance changed in Medina
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Shaikh Hamza Yusuf
"A beautiful book that just came out recently by Juan Cole, who's a brilliant scholar of Islam in the United States...he makes a very compelling argument that the prophet said and did everything to avoid war. That he was not somebody that was a war monger by any stretch.
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