In his decades of extensive scholarship, research and travel to countries where the Prophet Muhammad lived and worked, such as Arabia and Syria, Mohamad Jebara unearthed significant authentic primary, secondary and supplementary source materials including reports from the Prophet Muhammad himself and those who knew him firsthand. What is particularly noteworthy about this book is that it portrays Prophet Muhammad and Islam in a manner that, while anathema to Western renderings, is also at odds with the prevailing Islamic patriarchy and renditions of Islam emanating from countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan. It tells the story of the “roots, formation and application” of his mindset in a seventh century Arabian tribal context in which he established a revolutionary world religion that enshrined and protected, among other things, democracy, women’s rights and racial equality. It tells the intimate and personal story of his life: his relationships with female role models in particular, his progressive receipt of divine revelations over the course of 23 years, and the message they bore for humanity. What makes Imam Mohamad Jebara’s “Muhammad, the World Changer” so important is that it refutes the West’s reification and denigration of Islam by presenting a fresh and critical look at the Prophet Muhammad himself. Conflating terrorism with Islam, the American public acquiesced to wars against Muslims at home and abroad while believing that democracy, women’s rights and Judeo-Christian values were at stake.

empire garnered support for the creation and defense of the state of Israel and wars for geopolitical control of oil-producing countries, thus bolstering its GDP through the growth of the military-industrial complex. Rather, modern Islamophobia emerged in the post-Cold War era as a lay ideology by which the U.S.

Muhammad the world changer