穆罕默德·侯赛因·海卡尔，1888年出生于埃及海卡尔村的一个小康之家，1956年病逝。他是埃及著名政治家和作家。早年毕业于法律院校，继而到巴黎深造，并获得法学博士学位。他参加了立宪自由党，主编过它的宣传喉舌《政治》日报和周刊，曾担任过该党领袖和上议院议长，并连续担任几届教育部部长。他的著述和译作很多，涉及政治、法律、宗教、文艺等多方面内容。青年时代的小说《栽娜卜》轰动文坛，被誉为埃及现代文学史上第一部真正有价值的小说杰作。

本书作者库克任职于英国伦敦大学东方与非洲研究学院，是中东史专家。他与帕特里夏·克隆（Patricia Crone）合著有《夏甲说：伊斯兰世界的形成》，另外还著有中东历史论述多种。

Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity. '...(展开全部)

Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity. '...(展开全部)

The Robin has now been voted Britain's favourite bird – a friendly presence in thousands of gardens, year round. Its life was hardly understood when David Lack – who has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist – started his scientific observations of robins while a schoolteacher at Dartington. It was Lack who established that robins sing to defend their territory; ...(展开全部)

The Clay Sanskrit Library has recently set out to change the scene by making available well-translated dual-language (English and Sanskrit) editions of popular Sanskritic texts for the public. The Buddhist monk Ashva*ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayodhya. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called...(展开全部)

The Nobel Prize winner offers brilliant proof that "no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved." From their amazingly intricate feats of architecture to their intrinsic sense of self-sacrifice, Maeterlinck takes a "bee's-eye view" of the most orderly society on Earth.

The Robin has now been voted Britain's favourite bird – a friendly presence in thousands of gardens, year round. Its life was hardly understood when David Lack – who has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist – started his scientific observations of robins while a schoolteacher at Dartington. It was Lack who established that robins sing to defend their territory; ...(展开全部)