Muhammad at Medina

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Muhammad at Medina is a non-fiction book by W. Montgomery Watt about the life of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina. Published by Oxford University Press in 1956, it runs 418 pages and is the follow-up to Watt’s Muhammad at Mecca (1953). Together, these two books tell the history of Muhammad’s life and the origins of the Islamic community, focusing on Medina. In the preface Watt notes that his chapters on “The Unifying of the Arabs” and “The Internal Politics of Medina” are pioneering and longer than usual. The work draws on early Arabic sources and a wide range of scholarly discussion, and Watt offers a new perspective and tries to answer questions that had not been widely explored before. A few years later he published Muhammad Prophet and Statesman (1961), an abridged version for general readers.