محمد رسول الحرية

In this celebrated 1962 work, Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi offers a literary biography of the Prophet Muhammad, taking as his starting point the Quranic verse "Say: I am only a man like you." Breaking from the more formal biographical style of predecessors like Taha Hussein and Abbas al-Aqqad, al-Sharqawi renders the Prophet's life through a modern, dramatic, and deeply humanistic narrative, focusing on his role as a liberator who confronted the social injustice and ignorance of his age.

First serialized in the newspaper Al-Masaa in the early 1960s, the book provoked fierce controversy over its unconventional approach—a dispute that reached President Gamal Abdel Nasser himself before the book was cleared for circulation.