Possibly the best book ever written about the Prophet Muhammed, this is the ideal book for any westerner (or Muslim for that matter) who wants the answer to some very simple questions about Islam.
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah was a British author and diplomat of Indian-Afghan origin; he traveled throughout the world on assignment for the Foreign Office. Although he spent most of his life as a resident of the U.K., he spent his last decade living in Morrocco, where he died as a result of a traffic accident in late 1969 at the age of 75.