This is hard to rate. On one hand, I really appreciated reading a biography of the Prophet (pbuh) in the socio-historical context in which revelation occurred. However, this was a weird book to read - the way the author clearly had beef with later Muslim historians/sources, Qur'an translations being his own but also kind of dodgey/weird? There were a lot of assumptions the author had/pushed up against in terms of Muslim sources but he just seemed to think he /other Western historians were right. 

Overall interesting and useful book but take it with a grain of salt and read it in context of other sources if you are a believer! I'd be interested to hear what non-Muslims thinks of this book honestly bc I'm not sure who I would recommend it to?