An Arab orphan, who was always made to feel like an outsider, spends the first four decades of his life to find a respectable place in his community, only to leave it all in old age to fulfill a greater task: the transformation of the Arab society and the world beyond. His own tribesmen, who once used to swear by his truthfulness, became hungry for his blood; as he battled against his own kin and relatives to establish Islam, the most progressive religion of his time, and successfully bring the nomadic Arabia under one religion.

The First Muslim, Lesley Hazleton, Rs 599, Atlantic Books. Available on Amazon.in