A romantic letter discovered by an archaeologist in 1892 in the then newly developing city of Ismailia in north-east Egypt has opened up new questions on the sexual life of Muhammad. Muslims regard Muhammad for over a thousand years as a holy prophet, someone who has heard from Allah (God), but the content of the fragile letter which was discovered takes some philosophers and historians into a new understanding of the central figure behind the Quran and Islam.

Was the prophet Muhammad only a heterosexual? Or was he hiding a surreptitious love affair with another man that has now only emerged with the finding of this romantic letter?