The Life Of The Holy Prophet of Islam

by Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi

Provides a detailed account of the life and history of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him), including his birth and early life, events in Makkah and Madina, and his final years.

Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi was a scholar, a preacher and a writer. He acquired deep knowledge of religion as well as of secular subjects and his books have been used by children learning Islam, adults wanting to know further about our religion and by new converts and outsiders for whom Rizvi spent many hours enlightening them on the true concepts of the Shia faith.

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Genres: Islam

165 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Allamah Rizvi’s education began at his ancestral home in Gopalpur (Siwan). In 1942, he enrolled in Jami‘atul ‘Ulum Al-Jawadiyya, Banaras (U.P.) which was one of the three advanced Shía hawzas in India.

From 1949 to 2002, ‘Allãmah has written about 125 books of different sizes ranging on various topics from theology to comparative religions, from laws and ethics to history, from tafsir to hadith, from Urdu poetry to bibliographical and biographical works of ‘ulamã’. Of these publications, 85 are in English, 32 in Urdu, 12 in Arabic and 17 in Kiswahili; of which 98 have been published and six are in the process of publication.

Allãmah Rizvi was a linguist, and composed poems in Urdu. He wrote, spoke and delivered lectures in Urdu, Arabic, English, Swahili and Persian. He also had knowledge of Hindi and Gujarati. Apart from extensive and repeated tours within Eastern and Southern Africa, he has visited about 45 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.

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