This is a history of the early origins of Islam, beginning with Muhammad and tracing the rapid expansion of the religion in the generations after. From the preface: "THE present work lays claim to no higher character than that of a compilation. This indeed must necessarily be the character of any work attempted at this day upon the same subject. All the accessible facts in the life and fortunes of the Arabian prophet have long since been given to the world. New theories and speculations, moral and philosophical, founded upon these facts, and many of them richly deserving attention, are...