23 Years

Twenty Three Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad
AuthorAli Dashti
Translators
  • F. R. C. Bagley
  • F. R. Bagley
PublisherMazda Publishers (English)
Publication date
c. 1973
Publication placeIran
Published in English
1985?
Pages228
ISBN978-1-56859-029-5

23 Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad is a biographical book on the life of Muhammad written by Iranian author and scholar Ali Dashti. Although completed in 1973, the book was published anonymously in Beirut, Lebanon in 1974. The book is considered banned in Iran.

Following the Iranian Revolution (1979), Dashti, then in his mid‑eighties, was arrested, imprisoned, and sentenced to death by Islamic Revolutionary Court for writing this critical work on Islam.

The book contains criticism of the Quran