Muhammad: Islam's First Great General By Richard Gabriel

In the novel Muhammad: Islam’s First Great General by Richard Gabriel focuses on Muhammad’s prominent military history which showcases his great leadership skills, rather than his succession as a prophet. The author commences his novel by covering the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh century, and providing the physical, political, and cultural setting, as well as the recent political and military advancements. He then proceeds onto providing a comprehensive look at the great Romano-Persian war of 602-629 and discusses its political and cultural organization and equipping of the armies. This war was between two iranian empires and proved to be one of the longest human conflicts of all time, not to mention that it proved to be equally catastrophic