This first volume covers the world the Prophet ﷺ was born into, before the Seerah proper begins:
- Pre-Islamic religions of the Arabian Peninsula
- Domains and kingdoms of the Arabs
- Neighbors of the Arabs, and their religions
- Historical background of the Arabian Peninsula
Setting the scene at this length is unusual and deliberate. Understanding the social conditions of the time, the modes of life, and the habits and temperament of the people of the Peninsula and those around them is essential to grasping the age he lived in — and to seeing why Allah chose Arabia as the birthplace and starting point of a universal mission.
A reader who works through this volume meets the Makkan chapters of any Seerah differently afterwards, because he knows what the message was actually confronting.
About the Encyclopedia
The Hidden Pearls (Al-Lulu Al-Maknoon) is a comprehensive encyclopedia on the life and works of Muhammad ﷺ. The compilers set out to include everything relating to the final Messenger of Allah, neither overlooking nor trivializing a single minor event or secondary fact, and chronicling every incident from his birth to his death.
Each event was thoroughly researched, examined and vetted by a thirteen-member committee, then written in an easy, flowing style. The work is deliberately impersonal and objective in its technical matters and in its research methodology.
Please note: this is not a translation of the four-volume Arabic work of the same name. It is a new work compiled by Darussalam, originally in Urdu, and now being translated into other languages.
Printed in full color on glossy paper, illustrated with pictures and maps.
Volumes Available
Both volumes can be bought together as the two-volume set. Further volumes will follow as they are translated and printed.
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