Mohammed and the Rise of Islam - Muhammadanism
MOHAMMED
AND
THE RISE OF ISLAM
BY
D. S. MARGOLIOUTH
THIRD EDITION
G.P. PUTNAM¡¯S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
September 6, 2003
Heroes of the Nations
A Series of Biographical Studies presenting the
lives and work of certain representative
historical characters, about whom have
gathered the traditions of the nations to which
they belong, and who have, in the majority of
instances, been accepted as types of the
several national ideals.
FOR FULL LIST SEE END OF THIS VOLUME
Heroes of the Nations
EDITED BY
H. W. Carless Davis
FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE,
OXFORD
FACTA DUCIS VIVENT, OPEROSAQUE GLORIA
RERUM. ¡ª OVID IN LIVIAM 265.
THE HERO'S DEEDS AND HARD-WON FAME
SHALL LIVE.
MOHAMMED
THE ASCENSION OF MOHAMMED
From D'Ohsson's Tableau General de l' Empire
Othoman.
COPYRIGHT, 1905
BY
G.P. PUTNAM¡¯S SONS
The Knickerbocher Press, New York
PREFACE
THE biographers of the Prophet Mohammed 1 form a long series which it is impossible to
end, but in which it would be honourable to find a place. The most famous of them is
probably Sir Walter Raleigh, 2 while the palm for eloquence and historical insight may
well be awarded to Gibbon. 3
During the time when Gibbon wrote, and for long after, historians mainly relied
for their knowledge of the life of Mohammed on the Biography of Abu'l-Fida, who died
in the year 722 A.H., 1322 A.D., of whose work Gagnier produced an indifferent
edition.4 The scholars of the nineteenth century were naturally not satisfied with so late
an authority; and they succeeded in bringing to light all the earliest documents preserved
by the Mohammedans. The merit
1
Of the sources of the biography of the Prophet a valuable account is given by E. Sachau, Ibn Sa'd III.,
i., Preface.
2
The Life and Death of Mahomet, London, 1637.
3
Among eloquent accounts of Mohammed, that in Mr. Reade's Martyrdom of Man, 14th ed., 260 foll.,
deserves mention. That by Wellhausen in the introduction to Das Arabische Reich und sein Sturz is
masterly in the extreme.
4
Oxford, 1723. Abu'l-Fida is referred to as the chief authority perhaps for the last time by T. Wright,
Christianity in Arabia.
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