Victim of internal division and under the threat of powerful neighbors, Arabia is in search. In 571, if we believe tradition, the man who will embody the future of this emerging world is born. The life and fate of Muhammad are marked by the intersection of the momentum of events with the psychological complexity of his personality.

Arabia needed a monotheistic religion that was neither Judaism nor Christianity. It needed a State built from an ideology tailored to the expectations of its inhabitants. From Muhammad, Islam would be born, simultaneously a community of believers, a religion, and an empire with worldly dimensions, where a new culture was to be formed.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]