Brought up by uncle, in somewhat harsh conditions around
600 CE. At the time, a Semitic religion believing in the supreme God (Allah) and other gods/goddesses was norm. He marries his employer, prosperous merchant Khadidja, who was a widow. After her death, he takes multiple other wives. At age forty, the angel Gabriel appeared, and what he was told over 20 years became the Qu'ran. Thought he was insane at first, but then accepted it and worked to relay the message as Allah's prophet.