How can Muslims live faithfully with people who do not share their faith? This question is often treated as modern, difficult, and even suspicious. Yet it was present from the earliest days of Islam. The Prophet Muhammad ¿ and his companions lived through many different social realities: persecution in Mecca, refuge under a just Christian king in Abyssinia, the building of a plural community in early Medina, and the exercise of authority in late Medina. The Prophetic Models of Shared Life argues that these were not merely historical stages. They are enduring models of Prophetic guidance. Drawing on the Qur'an, the Seerah, the Constitution of Medina, and the classical Sunni tradition, Walid Abdurrahim recovers four models of Muslim life with others: The Meccan model of patience and faithful presence. The Abyssinian model of loyalty and participation under just non-Muslim authority. The early Medinan model of openness, cooperation, and covenantal community. The late Medinan model of justice, responsibility, and moral awareness under authority. Together, these models show that coexistence is not a modern concession imposed upon Islam. It is part of the Prophetic inheritance itself. This book challenges one-model readings of the Seerah that reduce Islam to a single posture toward the world, whether withdrawal, confrontation, political dominance, or private spirituality. It argues instead that the Sunnah contains a broader and wiser guidance: one that teaches Muslims how to remain faithful in weakness, loyal under justice, cooperative across difference, and just when entrusted with power. Written for Muslims living in plural societies, Muslim-majority communities, students of Seerah, religious leaders, educators, and thoughtful readers seeking a principled Islamic vision of shared life, this book offers a timely return to the Prophet ¿ as a guide for faith, covenant, belonging, and public responsibility. The Prophet ¿ did not leave his community with a slogan. He left it with models.