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Book Covers
Several books about Islam (mostly published in Europe within the last 20 years) have unabashedly depicted Mohammed on their covers. None of the book covers shown here caused any uproar in the Muslim world.

Mahomet: la parole d'Allah, by Anne-Marie Delcambre.

Andrew Bostom's book The Legacy of Jihad is one of the very few English-language books to show Mohammed on the cover. The illustration shows Mohammed (sitting alone, to the right, his face covered) observing the massacre of the Jewish tribe the Banu Qurayzah; from a 19th-century Kashmiri illustration in the British Library (see link for full attribution and a detailed explanation of the historical incident).

Spanish-language edition of Mahoma: La vida del Profeta, by Roger Caratini.

This drawing, entitled "Christus oder Muhammed" ("Christ or Mohammed") was made in 1904 by German artist Sascha Schneider. It was used as the cover of the adventure novel Orangen und Datteln ("Oranges and Dates") by Karl May. As such, it is the earliest known book cover to depict Mohammed.
(Hat tip: Greg V.)

The cover of the 1911 Danish biography called Profeten Muhammed written by Johannes strup shows Mohammed riding on a stylized ying horse -- as discovered by the Uriasposten blog.
(Hat tip: Politically Incorrect Lib.)

Why We Left Islam (published by WND books in 2008) is the only book published in the United States and currently in print that features an unveiled Mohammed on the cover.

Mohammed und Seine Zeit (Mohammed and His Era), by Enzo Orlandi (German edtion of a book originally in Italian). The cover depicts Mohammed receiving ambassadors in Medina.
(Hat tip: A.L.)

The recent book Muhammed, by Eliot Weinberger (September 2006, Verso Books) was orignally designed with a picture of Mohammed on the cover, as this picture released by the company in their catalog shows. But as the book's page at Amazon now reveals, Verso Books subsequently changed the spelling to Muhammad, and more importantly changed the design to no longer feature a depiction of Mohammed, most likely out of fear of oending anyone.

Mahomet, by Salah Stti.

Mahomet, by Maxime Rodinson. You can download a pdf that contains part of the contents of this book by right-clicking (or control-clicking) on this link; the pdf includes ve small historical Islamic pictures of Mohammed.

In September of 2006, French publisher Editions Priv released L'Aaire des Caricatures: Dessins et Manipulations by Mohamed Sifaoui, featuring a cartoon of Mohammed on the cover by artist Ramo. Sifaoui is a journalist who exposed the three Danish imams who had circulated fraudulent Mohammed cartoons in the Middle East to stir up resentment amongst Muslims against Denmark and the West. The cover illustration shows 3 imams on the left picking an image of Mohammed as a pig, as one says, "I have one that will cause trouble." On the right is Mohammed saying, "The rst ones to insult the Muslim religion are those who kill innocent people in the name of Islam." Interestingly, both the author Sifaoui and the artist Ramo are themselves Muslim.
(Hat tip: Martin.)

Mahomet le Prophte, by Gabriel Mendel Khan (ditions Acropole, 2002).

Mahomet, by Umberto Rizzitano (ditions Somogy, 1973).

La Vie de Mahomet, by Virgil Gheorghiu (ditions Plon, 1962).

A dierent edition of Mahomet, by Anne-Marie Delcambre.

Mahoma, a biography of Mohammed in the Spanish Credencial Historia series.

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