Journalist Rageh Omaar presents this three-part BBC series tracing the life of the Prophet Muhammad, from his birth in Mecca through the revelations, the migration to Medina, and the establishment of the early Muslim community. Billed at the time as the first British television series to attempt a full biography of Muhammad for a general audience, it combines Omaar's on-location reporting from the Middle East with interviews from historians, theologians, and Muslim scholars who discuss what is known and disputed about the historical record. The series traces how a merchant in seventh-century Arabia became the founder of a religion that now claims over a billion adherents, addressing the political and social conditions of pre-Islamic Arabia alongside the theological claims of the faith. Each of the three episodes covers a distinct phase of Muhammad's life, and the series treats contested episodes, including the conflicts with Meccan tribes and the succession disputes after his death, as open historical questions rather than settled doctrine.