23 Years
| Author | Ali Dashti |
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| Publisher | Mazda Publishers (English) |
Publication date | c. 1973 |
| Publication place | Iran |
Published in English | 1985? |
| Pages | 228 |
| ISBN | 978-1-56859-029-5 |
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