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A general note about English-language biographies of Muhammad
From the introduction to The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad (2010), which is a collection of essays, p. 13:

In the past fifty years, scholars have tended to shy away from sweeping treatments of Muhammad’s life, leaving to writers such as Karen Armstrong and Hans Küng the task of reconciling Muhammad’s story with modern life. The appearance of Michael Cook’s Muhammad in 1986 is remarkable for its exception to this trend, yet it also is arguably less a biography of Muhammad than it is a study of problems facing anyone who would write such a biography. Instead, Western scholars have either retreated into specific, narrow studies or rejected the search for the historical Muhammad altogether.