Upon him, Mohammad, Salvation.

THE LIFE OFMOHAMMAD

THE PROPHET

OF ALLAH

  "The man's words were not false...
a fiery mass of Life cast-up from
the great bosom of Nature herself."
("On Heroes," by THOMAS CARLYLE,
London, 1841.)

Frontispiece

"In the name

of Allah!

the Compassionate

the Merciful"

HISTORY

OF THE

PROPHECY

"Upon His Hero

(Mohammad),

boundless veneration."

There is no God but Allah, and Mohammad is the Prophetof Allah.

THE LIFE OF

MOHAMMAD

THE PROPHET OF ALLAH

BY

E. DINET and SLIMAN BEN IBRAHIM

ILLUSTRATED BY

E. DINET

ORNAMENTAL PAGES BY MOHAMMAD RACIM

PARIS

THE PARIS BOOK CLUB, 11, RUE DE CHATEAUDUN

THIS
WORK
IS DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR-PAINTER
AND HIS ARAB COLLABORATOR
TO THE MEMORY OF THE VALIANT MOSLEM SOLDIERS
PARTICULARLY THOSE OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND
WHO, IN THE SACRED CAUSE OF
RIGHT, JUSTICE AND HUMANITY
HAVE PIOUSLY SACRIFICED
THEIR LIVES IN
THE GREAT WAR
OF THE
NATIONS

Index

Transcriber's Notes

PREFACE

An existence, so full of stirring events as that of the ProphetMohammad, cannot be described by us in all its details. As there arelimits to all books, we have had to rest content with a selection ofthe most important episodes, so that eac