Guillaume was born in Edmonton, Middlesex, the son of Alfred Guillaume. He took up Arabic after studying Theology and Oriental Languages at the Wadham College, Oxford. In the First World War, he served in France and then in the Arab Bureau in Cairo. Guillaume was a Christian and later ordained.
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- Seerat un-Nabi
The Life of Muhammad SAW English A. Guillaume
- "The Life of Muhammad" by Alfred Guillaume is a foundational and academically essential English translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, the earliest and most comprehensive biography of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) to survive. While Ibn Ishaq's original work is lost, this version, preserved primarily through the recension of Ibn Hisham, provides an invaluable, detailed narrative covering the Prophet's life…
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