Muhammad, The Prophet by Gabriel Mandel Khan. ISBN 1-59223-401-1. This book is well written and illustrated with many photographs. The author is clearly pro-Islam. In fact after reading this book one would think that everything good in the world was created by the Islamic peoples (and conversely everything bad by the non-Islamic peoples, especially the Europeans.) Since this is not the case, this book can be viewed as biased in favor of Islam. Still it might be worth reading, you just need to remember that the point of view is tilted towards Islam. Ironically, it appears that the author lives in Italy. You would assume that someone who is so pro-Islam would prefer to live in an Islamic country.