In A Nutshell: Islamic Personalities

Title What Non-Muslims Say About Muhammad, The Prophet of Islam -Michael H. Hart -William Montgomery Watt -Alphonse de Lamartine -Reverend Bosworth Smith -Mohandas KaramchandGandhi -Edward Gibbon -John William Draper -David George Hogarth -Washington Irving -Annie Besant -Edward Gibbon What Non-Muslims Say About  'Ali, The First Successor of Prophet Muhammad -Thomas Carlyle -Edward Gibbon -Philip Khuri Hitti -Sir William Muir -Dr. Henry Stubbe -Gerald de Gaury -Wilferd Madelung -Charles Mills -Simon Ockley -Washington Irving -Robert Durey Osborn A Sermon Without Dots -What is so special about this sermon? -Are there any other such sermons? -How could Imam ‘Ali (a) accomplish such a feat? What Non-Muslims Say About  Husayn, The Third Successor of Prophet Muhammad -Peter J. Chelkowski -Simon Ockley -Reynold Alleyne Nicholson -Robert Durey Osborn -Sir William Muir -Edward G. Brown -Ignaz Goldziher -Edward Gibbon Were All Companions Just and Truthful? -A Companion Defined -Were All Companions Just and Truthful? -Al-Walid bin 'Uqbah -But why not let bygones be bygones? -The Shi'i View on the Companions