Excerpt from History of Mohammedanism, and Its Sects: Derived Chiefly From Oriental Sources The history of Mohammedanism forms, if not an essential, at least a very useful and interesting portion of Christian knowledge, since it enables us to compare with revelation~ the most influential system ever devised by human reason. Its' claims to such competition are great and obvious: though its origin was obscure, its progress was rapid; with appar ently disproportioned means it obtained the most brilliant triumphs; its converts were made by tribes and nations; it sway has been extensive, and its dominion permanent. That these circumstances have furnished many a sarcasm to the sneering sceptic, ai'id, perhaps, sometimes shaded with doubt the mind of the true believer, is a matter of sorrow rather than surprise, but that too many advocates of our holy religion have aided the infidel, by accepting his sophistical statement of the question, may justly fill us with astonish ment. If the terms of the matter in dispute were fairly explained, there is not a human being possessed of ordi nary capacity that would not find the entire argument, which the sceptic founds on the success of Mohammed, a mass of disguised assumptions and wilful misrepresenta~ tions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.